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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help: script to monitor incoming files Post 302332290 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 8th of July 2009 03:38:55 PM
Old 07-08-2009
If you are on Linux you can use inotify to trigger script action every time a file arrives.
Otherwise, you will l have to run your job very late in the day and compare filenames to a list of expected names. Here is a simple example to start with:
filelist - list of files like
file.txt
pdq.lis

This assumes the new files are eventually moved or renamed
Code:
ls -1 > currentfiles
awk 'FILENAME=="filelist" {arr[$0]++}
       FILENAME=="currentfiles" { if (! $0 in arr) {print "new file: " $0 } else {arr[$0]++}}
       END {for (file in arr) {if(arr[file]==1) {print arr[file] " not found"}}   }   
       '   filelist  currentfiles

 

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