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Originally Posted by pasaico

Thnk you for your answer. after I will try your suggestion
the problem with myscript:
If in the HOTFOLDER there are 10 .xlsx files and then I copy a new one, the loop works all file to the end.
If there is no file inside the HOTFOLDER and then I copy 10.xlsx, the loop processes only one

It is because of the way you were using inotifywait.

Code:

inotifywait -e create /some/dir

will wait for the create event in /some/dir, report that event and exit.

You copy 10 files into that directory and only the first is processed because the script is finished (or at least the wildcard *.xlsx is expanded) before the second file is added.

Code:

inotifywait -m -e create /some/dir | while read dir event file

will run the loop for every file added to the directory /some/dir and will process the files one-at-a-time.

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