Shell Programming and Scripting

#!/bin/ksh
#!/bin/bash

#1st take current date format same way as you like to do it for file
#=same format

RUNDATE=""
rundate()
{
touch tmpdate
RUNDATE=$( ls -l tmpdate | awk '{print $6,$7}' )
rm -f tmpdate 2>/dev/null
}

count=0
while (( count < 5 ))
do
    (( count+=1 ))
    echo "Try $count"
    rundate
    filedate=$( ls -l file.xml | awk '{print $6,$7}' )
    if (( count >= 5 ))
    then
      echo "Too many retries"
      echo "Please check source why the file is not imported"
      exit 1
    fi    
       
    if [ "$filedate" = "$RUNDATE" ] 
    then
       echo "Today's file is ready for processing."
       echo "Sleeping 30 secs to allow it to process "
     else
       echo "File date in directory is $filedate and today's date is $RUNDATE. They don't match"
       echo "Sleeping 30 seconds and trying again; 5 tries is my limit"
    fi
    sleep 30
done