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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Pause shell script till folder doesn't change size anymore Post 302535986 by tukuyomi on Sunday 3rd of July 2011 04:14:12 PM
Old 07-03-2011
Try this:
Code:
#!/bin/sh

DIR=~/'unix.com'
dir_size=0;

get_size(){ du -s "$1" 2>/dev/null | awk '$0=$1';}

while [ : ]; do
	# Script does its stuff
	sleep 5
	while [ "$(get_size "$DIR")" -ne "$dir_size" ]; do
		dir_size=$(get_size "$DIR")
		sleep 5
	done
	echo "Size has not changed since the last 5 seconds. Loop to the top"
done

exit 0

Save this as 'script.sh' or something, and run it with ./script.sh &
Last edited by tukuyomi; 07-03-2011 at 05:39 PM..
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