03-18-2009
check for a file and run some commands
Hi all,
Can you guys please help me with this...
I am on AIX and need to prepare a script which will
1. check for a file named do_backup in the current file system
2. If the file exists i need to run some commands and exit, if the file doesn't exist then sleep for 15 mins and try again...
Thank you....
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