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Ok, here's using grep:

find . \( -name success -prune \) -o \( -name error -prune \) -o -name "G*" -print) | grep '[0-9]\{6\}'

Thanks,
alexkav

Hello agian, is it possible to adjust the "find" command to only find files beginning with "G" and followed by numbers?

For example:

good: G102030
bad: GFI_UPLOAD.log

Thanks,
alexkav

Perfect. Thank you!

Hello, I am trying to search a directory for all files matching "G*" without looking in sub-directories "success" and "error". I've searched this forum and found the following syntax, but can't make...

Thanks for taking another look. I see your point about "touch newtime" only if bombing...

alexkav

gjduff, you still there? I'm trying to make the script check every 10 seconds for a new file then update a logfile. Can you see what I'm missing?

Thanks,
alexkav

#!/bin/ksh
...

Thank you!

Ok, this is better. Thanks again.

#!/bin/ksh
touch newtime
sleep 10

NEW=`find . -type f -name "G*" -newer newtime`

if [ -z $NEW ]; then
echo "bombing..."
exit 1

else
...

Oops, hang on. I think my removing the temp did something bad. Let me try again...

gjduff, thanks alot for your help. I made a small change to your script to get rid of the temp part, since I don't want to write anything to the dir. How can I get rid of the "./" in the output? (see...

Hello, I am trying to write a simple script to wake up every 300 seconds and look for a new file in a directory (e.g., "G102005"), remove the "G" from the file name, then print the new filename.
...