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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting until loop issue. Post 302435651 by gurpartap on Wednesday 7th of July 2010 11:42:11 PM
Old 07-08-2010
Hi, my script is waiting for 3 files to come to a folder for 30 min but even when all the files arrive in the folder it's still waiting for these three files. Files can come with in 2 min and I want it to start processing them immediately after all the files arrive in the folder.

until [ `ls *.csv | wc -l` -eq 3 ]; do
sleep 1800
mailx -s "files are missing"
done

I have tried using until [[ `ls *.csv | wc -l` -eq "3" ]]; do
thanks in advance for your time.

There is a space in ls and *.csv in the actual code. while posting here it was removed by mistake. Whenever it doesn't find all the 3 files it sent out the error email.
thanks
 

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