Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

In our current process we are reading the file, (which is placed by external vendor)from one particular folder and processing those files
through ETL(informatica). We are reading these file as " ls -ltr *.txt"
Once the process is finish these files are moved to archived script by "mv" command.

Now the problem is that if the external vendor places the file when the ETL process is running , these file is not process(by ETL) but as soon the process finsihes it will archive all the file ("mv" command) irrespective whether the file is process or not.

Is there any way through script where in we can check if the particular file is process and only archive those files which are processed?

Thanks in advance!!

Simplest solution: before you start processing the files, move them to a staging directory. Afterwards, move to archive only those files in the staging directory, and move the fresh batch from incoming to staging.