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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Take action if a particular file appears in a directory Post 302324128 by Yogesh Sawant on Wednesday 10th of June 2009 03:47:57 AM
Old 06-10-2009
to run your script every 5 minutes, you need to schedule a cron job, see - https://www.unix.com/answers-frequent...n-crontab.html

the script would be something like:
Code:
file_to_check="/tmp/newfile"
backup_dir="/foo/"
another_script="/foo/bar"
if [ -e $file_to_check ] ; then
# Check if file exists
  mv $file_to_check $file_to_check.backup    # Rename the file
  mv $file_to_check.backup $backup_dir       # And move it to a backup dir
  another_script   # Run another script
fi

 

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