Shell Programming and Scripting

Hello Everyone,

I got a simple question. I'm trying to write a shell that looks for a file that arived ftp area and keeps looking until it find it.



It should look for the file that begins with test and then when it finds it. It starts the wmdaten.sh shell. All i got is that it runs through starts the shell even when test file is not there. It would be great if someone could show what i did wrong.

Thanks Pete

i would do such searching loops with "while"

greetings Preßy

Your approach does not seem quite right to me.

Since your wmdatem.sh script does not take any parameters I assume it knows what to do with the files in the directory.

You may simply be better off counting the number of files which happen to match the name you are looking for. Something like

COUNT=`ls /usr/users/ftp/wmdaten/test* | wc -l`

Continue to poll the ftp directory while the file count is 0. When the count is greater than zero break out the loop and call the script?

MBB

Is this what you're trying to do? Just a minor change to your existing code...

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
for file in /usr/users/ftp/wmdaten/test*
do
 if [ -f $file ]
 then
  /usr/local/bin/wmdaten.sh
 fi
done

Scripts like these will put considerable load on system. Even a "sleep 1" inserted into the loop will help a lot.

Thanks oombera,


Thats what i was looking for. I just got finished with my shell programing course from Sun, I was working on this. I know its not much but just learning.

And Perderabo thanks too. I know its a large load for the machine but its only running for max 10 min. and when no users are using the system.

Thanks again to everyone...

Pete