Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I am new to this unix scripting, I got a requirement like..

Files with *.XML extension will be generating in a /home/sample/ folder for every 15 mins. I need to monitor those files in that particular folder for every hour.
If no file has been generated in that particular folder for an hour, need to send a mail to particular group.

Can anyone please help me??

Thanks in advance..

Great tins brethren...

Kindly post the script, or an extract thereof... so we can see what you've done so far. That way it's easier to post suggestions or pointers...

I will however suggest you familiarise yourself with the 'date' command... that way you can simply do a something like this:

Code:

compare_date=`date | awk '{print $2" "$3" "$4}'`

the output should be something like this:

May 6 11:27:20 (you can use sed to remove ":20"

then do a listing for all *.XML files in that directory:

Code:

file_timestamp=`ls -ltr *.XML| awk '{print $6" "$7" "$8}'`

using the two variables returned... you can use some arithmetic, and do a subtraction, to compare the timestamp of the last file generated, to the current time (you can use an if statement for this).

What OS would you like to do this on?

Hi ,

I want to write the shell script in UNIX box. Could you please send me the code.

Files with *.XML extension will be generating in a /home/sample/ folder for every 15 mins. I need to monitor those files in that particular folder for every hour.
If no file has been generated in that particular folder for an hour, need to send a mail to particular group.

Can anyone please help me??

Thanks in advance..

Have you tried the code i sent you in the previous post?

I understand you want to write the script on a UNIX box... are you speaking of solaris? if so what version?

Have you started with the script already, or are you just looking for somebody to send you the working code? Since you mentioned you are new to scripting, I don't think it would be advisable to do copy, pastes of code... You need to understand what the commands in your script do, and how they work...

Please type the following command:

Code:

uname -a

Can you try this ?

Code:

#!/bin/ksh

while [ 0 -lt 1 ]
do
 if [ -f *.xml ]
 then
  echo "File found" ;
 else
  echo "File not found" ;
  mailx -s "File not found" <email id> ;
 fi
 sleep 900 ;
done

-Nithin.

I typed the command which u gave and I got the below result:

AIX cpaiadba 3 5 00CF6B8F4C00


I have started the script:

What condition I can keep in if loop to get whether the files have been generated in that particular folder or not.

If the script is running at 9:50:00 am , it should get the count of files from 8:50:00 to 9:50:00 AM.

I can get the number files in that particular folder using the below command :

ls filename* | sed 's/_[0-9]*.xml//g' | wc -l

Thanks

Quick question...

Are you always expecting the same amount of files to be generated per hour? For example... will x amount of files constantly be generated each hour?