Shell Programming and Scripting

/home/usr

abc.txt
cde.txt
aaaa.txt
lll.txt
ooo.txt

#! /usr/bin/ksh

typeset    afPattern[1]="/path/to/file1"       # location of files to search for
typeset    afPattern[2]="/path/to/file2"
typeset    afPattern[3]="/path/to/file3"
typeset    afPattern[4]="/path/to/file4"
typeset    afPattern[5]="/path/to/file5"
typeset    afPattern[6]="/path/to/file6"
typeset    afPattern[7]="/path/to/file7"
typeset    afPattern[8]="/path/to/file8"
typeset    afPattern[9]="/path/to/file9"
typeset    afPattern[10]="/path/to/file10"
typeset -i iFound=0                                 # number of found files
typeset -i iCnt=0

while [ $iFound -lt ${#afPattern[*]} ] ; do
     sleep 5
     (( iFound=0 ))
     (( iCnt=1 ))
     while [ $iCnt -le ${#afPattern[*]} ] ; do
          if [ -e "${afPattern[$iCnt]} ] ; then
               (( iFound += 1 ))
          fi
          (( iCnt += 1 ))
     done
done

something
exit 0

cd /home/user &&
if test \
-f abc.txt -a \
-f cde.txt -a \
-f aaaa.txt -a \
-f lll.txt -a \
-f ooo.txt
then
 othercommand
fi

$ ls  *.txt | diff listfile - &> /dev/null && echo other processing || echo waiting