Originally Posted by Don Cragun

You have a loop over all PDF files in and under $SYSDIR in your main loop that includes a call to rss_body which includes a loop over all PDF files in and under $SYSDIR. This is almost certainly not what you want, but without a better description of where PDF files are located in your file hierarchy and what XML files you're trying to create, I'm not clear on what you want to accomplish.

What OS are you using? How are you invoking feedgen1.sh?

Are you getting any output at all from feedgen1.sh?

Are any files being created by your current script? (And, if so, what is in them?)

What is the output from the commands:

Code:

ls -l feedgen1.sh
find $SYSDIR -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec ls -l {} +
find $RSSDIR -type d -exec ls -ld {} +
find $RSSDIR -type f -name '*.xml' -exec ls -l {} +

Is the output you see from the above commands representative of the locations of the PDF files you want to report in your XML files (or do you just have 1 or 2 PDF files installed for testing)? Is the output you see from the above commands representative of the directory structure you hope to see under $RSSDIR?

What XML files are you hoping to create from the output shown by the above commands?

The variable DESC is unset in this script, but $DESC is used in rss_body. What is the description tag in your XML files supposed to contain for your PDF files?