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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting reading a file name as soon as that files arrives into a folder Post 72864 by vino on Wednesday 25th of May 2005 07:13:25 AM
Old 05-25-2005
How about using a sleep ?

Code:
#! /bin/sh

while true
do
[ -f /path/to/the/new/file ] && echo "/path/to/the/new/file"
#sleep for 1 min
sleep 60
done

Vino
 

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