Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I have a directory user1 in which files get written continuously.
I want to list the "new" files that are in this directory based
on a reference file using find command.
Here's what I have been trying:

#!/bin/sh
ref_file=/export/home/user1/ref

fn()
{
while read file
do
find . \( -name $file -a newer $ref_file \) -print
done < list
}

fn
touch $ref_file

Here "list" is a text file which contains list of all files in the specified directory.
The problem is that whenever i create(touch) the $ref_file through the script
the find command does not find files newer than $ref_file while as if I do NOT
create the file ($ref_file) through the script and create it manually before executing the script, new files are found.

Any help would be highly appreciated.
rte

see if this helps ....

Code:

#!/bin/sh
ref_file=/export/home/user1/ref

fn()
{
while read file
do
find . \( -name $file -a -newer $ref_file \) -print
done < list
}

fn
touch $ref_file