Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

There is requirement wherein I want to search particular file names in a folder.
Now its not quite straight forward. Below are the examples:

sh123.1
sh12345.1
sh1234.1
sh1234.2
sh123.2
sh12345.2
sh1234.3
sh1234.4
.....
sh12134.12
.....so on

Now below are the requirements:
1.) Search above pattern files in a $file_dest folder ( like sh[1-4].[1-30] something like this..not sure though) and put in a temp.txt file
2.) Now again if any of above same file name ( before dot) exists more than 15 time ( it means sh1234.1 to sh1234.15 or sh123.1 to sh123.15) in temp.txt
then if else loop. I think do while loop will come here to check for all possibilities for a file name.
For eg: firstly in temp.txt search sh12.1 then sh12.2 then sh12.3 ..... if like this sh12.14 exist then do nothing....then search for sh123.1 then sh123.2 then sh123.3 ...if like this sh123.15 exist then do take sh123 (which is a process name and kill sh123 process). Likewise check for sh1234.1 till sh1234.15 if 15 files exist with same process sh1234 then kill it else do nothing.

Hope you guys didnt get confused...

Code:

cd destFold                     # reach to destination folder
ls sh*.* | sed 's/\..*//g' | sort -u | while read line                  # list files which are in sh*.* format | remove everything after . with sed(i.e. sh123.12 will become sh123) | sort them uniquely | one by one read filenames(i.e. sh123, sh1234, sh12, etc..) 
do
    cnt=`ls ${line}.* | wc -l`                # take count of files in destFold directory
    if [ $cnt -ge 15 ] ; then                   # if count is greater then 15
        pid=`echo "$line" | sed -n 's/sh//g'`                   # extract pid from line by removing sh(i.e. sh123 will be 123, sh1234 will be 1234)
        kill -9 $pid                               # kill that pid as requested
    else
         echo ""                              # else do nothing
    fi
done

This is only for 1 time. If u want this to be monitored then run while loop again in loop.

Thanks But:

process id to kill the process I need to take from file name.

if sh1234.1 is a file name then process id is 1234
if sh123.2 is a file name then process id is 123

How can i pass this to kill <process id parameter>

and ALSO I want to run this to check for all available files...not 1 time.
For eg for sh123.* and then for sh1234.* till the end of while.

Edited post#2

Update Post #3

---------- Post updated at 06:27 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:26 AM ----------

Also please let me know what backslah '\' is doing here in sed?

sed 's/\..*//g'

thanks

find the whole explanation in post #2

Thanks Rohan.
But as you hae mentioned in your post 2 that
"This is only for 1 time. If u want this to be monitored then run while loop again in loop."

I would like to run it again and again for all possibilities...
Can you please help me out for that as well....i dont want to run it once...but like a loop again and again for all posibilities...eg: check for sh123 then for sh1234 then for sh12345 etc.

Thanks Rohan