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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File checking script need help Post 302612919 by ken002 on Monday 26th of March 2012 12:37:52 PM
Old 03-26-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
These lines will check the file daily at noon, on days between the 5th and the 7th when put in your crontab(edit it via crontab -e):

Code:
# Do something if /path/to/file exists
0 12 5,6,7 * * [ -f /path/to/file ] && do_something
# Do something if /path/to/file does not exist
0 12 5,6,7 * * [ -f /path/to/file ] || do_something_else

In general, cron lines work like
Code:
              field          allowed values
              -----          --------------
              minute         0-59
              hour           0-23
              day of month   1-31
              month          0-12 
              day of week    0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun)

...and the last field is the shell script(bourne shell, not csh) to be run.

See man 5 crontab for details on the crontab file.
Thanks for your quick replay,

Unfortunately, My sys admin does not want to use cron job to do this, I have to using script to check this. do you have any idea about using script to check it?
ken002
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

nautilus-scripts-manager

NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)				      General Commands Manual				       NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)

NAME

       nautilus-scripts-manager - easy tool for nautilus scripts management

SYNOPSIS

       nautilus-scripts-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the nautilus-scripts-manager command.

       nautilus-scripts-manager is a program that allows any user to easily manage installed Nautilus scripts.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

COMMANDS

       One (and only one) of the following commands can be passed:

       -e, --enable=ENABLE
	      Enable script ENABLE.

       -d, --disable=DISABLE
	      Disable script DISABLE.

       -l, --list-enabled
	      List enabled scripts.

       -a, --list-available
	      List available scripts.

       If no command is provided, the graphical interface is started.

OPTIONS

       -e, --position=POSITION
	      In conjunction with -e or -d: establish the position of the script (can be just a name, or a path with slashes - quote it if it con-
	      tains spaces).

SEE ALSO

       nautilus(1),

AUTHOR

       nautilus-scripts-manager and this manual page were written by Pietro Battiston <me@pietrobattiston.it>.

       This manual page was written for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   July 14, 2009				       NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)
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