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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers UNIX ksh Copy Files Script Post 302882326 by PerlHaven2k on Monday 6th of January 2014 08:39:26 AM
Old 01-06-2014
UNIX ksh Copy Files Script
I need a UNIX ksh script that counts the number of files in directory, if the files exceed 20 files, then email results. I want the script to run every hour.. I don't have access to cron.. I'm some what new to UNIX. Windows guy all my career.. this is what I have so far..
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
# count.sh

while :
do
 for dir in /directory1/
 do
  echo "$dir `du $dir |wc -l`" 
 done > ./message
 mailx -s 'Dir Count' me@johndoe.com < ./message
 sleep 3600
done


Any help is greatly appreciated...
Last edited by Franklin52; 01-06-2014 at 09:40 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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collect-reminders

COLLECT-REMINDERS(1)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      COLLECT-REMINDERS(1)

NAME

       collect-reminders - collect email reminders to be sent out

SYNOPSIS

       Collect emails reminders set by users for special occasions and move them to the email-reminder spool directory.

DESCRIPTION

       Email-reminder allows users to define events that they want to be reminded of by email.

       This script is meant to be invoked everyday by a cron job or as the root user.  It collects the reminder files from each user.

OPTIONS

       --help
	     Displays basic usage message.

       --verbose
	     Prints out information about what the program is doing, including the full emails being sent out.

       --version
	     Displays the version number.

FILES

       ~/.email-reminders, /etc/email-reminder.conf

AUTHOR

       Francois Marier <francois@email-reminder.org.nz>

SEE ALSO

       email-reminder-editor, send-reminders

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2004-2010 by Francois Marier

       Email-Reminder is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
       the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       Email-Reminder is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Email-Reminder; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
       Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-28						      COLLECT-REMINDERS(1)
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