06-23-2005
Loop through files in a directory
Hi,
I want to write bash script that will keep on looking for files in a directory and if any file exists, it processes them. I want it to be a background process, which keeps looking for files in a directory.
Is there any way to do that in bash script?
I can loop through all the files like this:
for i in `ls -1 \dirname\*`
do
....
done
I can make it an endless loop llike this while [ true ]
do
done
Thanks for all you help.
R
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service -- control (start/stop/etc.) or list system services
SYNOPSIS
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