Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All,

I am new to unix scripting, i need to develop a alert system which get trigger when my scripts don't find any *.log file to copy from one directory to other directory.
In detail my scripts run every day and it create a dummy file and check all those *.log file 1 day old and copy them to other directory for processing.
I want to aaply alter if *.log doesn't exist or have not come in for the day.

my code is as below

Code:

touch -t `date +%Y%m%d0000` dummy
find . -newer dummy -type f  |
while read fname
do
  mv $fname /ersdg3/ERS/ERS_INPUT_LOGS/RIO/LOGS/$NEWDIR
done

How can i check if it has something to copy and do it else email me so that i will be alert.

Any help will be appreciated

Hi,

There are several options, check out the "test" and "if" in built variables for your shell.

Or you can check the return code from a command.

Try

Code:

man bash

Regards

Dave

Code:

found=0
touch -t `date +%Y%m%d0000` dummy
for fname in $(find . -newer dummy -type f );do
   found=1
   mv $fname /ersdg3/ERS/ERS_INPUT_LOGS/RIO/LOGS/$NEWDIR
done
if [ $found -eq 0 ] ; then
   sendmail -t  <<EOM
From: warning@file_host
To: admin@this.site
Subject: Couldn't move file

Dear Me,
This is the text of the mail
.
EOM
fi

Hi,

I tried the solution and have changed from and to part of sendmail. but sendmail is not working can you please tell me is anysetting required for sendmail to work