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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell Scripting on files in directory Post 302951920 by derekludwig on Tuesday 11th of August 2015 05:18:49 PM
Old 08-11-2015
If the file listfile contains the files you want to process (sans directory), then the post-processing could be something like:
Code:
targetdir=/.../directory
watchdir=$targetdir/.watchdir
listfile=/.../listfile

cd $targetdir
mkdir -p $watchdir

while sleep ${delay}; do
  for file in $(< ${listfile}); do
    if [[ ! -e ${watchdir}/${file} -o ${file} -nt ${watchdir}/${file} ]]; then
        touch -r ${file} ${watchdir}/${file}
        process ${file}
    fi
  done
done

But as Jim_McNamara rightly pointed out, processing a file that is being written too is the path to sadness - you have a very good chance of reading an incomplete file.

What is creating the source files?
 

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