Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community


Shell Programming and Scripting

Create a trigger file using touch

Login to Discuss or Reply to this Discussion in Our Community

 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Create a trigger file using touch
# 1  
Old 05-29-2013
Create a trigger file using touch
Hi,
I need to create a trigger file named "start" at 4 pm daily . Once this file is created , another process would be initiated. How do i do it using touch command in unix ?
My script that should have touch command shall be present in a dir /app/user/script while the trigger file should be generated in another dir /app/user/temp/ .


thanks.
# 2  
Old 05-29-2013
man touch?
# 3  
Old 05-30-2013
Have a read of the manual pages for the cron scheduler to get this done each day.

Let us know how you get on. Smilie




Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
Login or Register to Ask a Question

Previous Thread | Next Thread

9 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

Pick file and Trigger informatica process

Hi, I am creating a script in which we will check a folder. If any file placed inside the folder, script will move the file to another folder and Trigger etl process. Now the issue is that the script should continously check the presence of file inside folder after every minute or hour. So how... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dgargd2524
1 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Command / Script to create touch file in destination server

Hello Team, Is there any Linux command / script available so that, I could create a simple 0 byte file in destination server by issuing the command from source server. If yes, Could you please let me know the possible solutions. in other words I just want to create a touch file in my home... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: madhuraju
1 Replies

3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Using touch to create a file

I have noticed that the following command works touch subtext_geopdf_to_.x However this one does not touch subtext_/geopdf/_to_/.x How can I create such a file without making it think I supplied a path? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kristinu
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Check presence of trigger file

Hi, I make a sftp connection successfully.My requirement is the script shall execute only after i find a trigger file(dailyreport.OK.psv) in the remote dir. If the trigger file is not present ,the script should exit else it should continue with the rest of the scripts statements. Below code is... (13 Replies)
Discussion started by: samrat dutta
13 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Needed touch command to create a file in the following format

needed touch command to create a file in the following format touch a_yyyymmdd_hhmmss (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: hemanthsaikumar
1 Replies

6. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Match the amount fields in the source file vs trigger file

Hello, I have to write a script to compare the sum of the amount fields in a source file and the amount field in another file. details are: based on the name of the source file (say SALES as an example), a file already available in a path will be grabbed (say SALES_ParmFile) and this file... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: vijaylak
4 Replies

7. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Touch all files and subdirectories (recursive touch)

I have a folder with many subdirectories and i need to set the modified date to today for everything in it. Please help, thanks! I tried something i found online, find . -print0 | xargs -r0 touch but I got the error: xargs: illegal option -- r (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: glev2005
5 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Can I make "touch" create executable files by manipulating umask?

I'm getting to grips with this concept of the umask. What I thought was, setting umask uga+rwx would result in creating files with all permissions for everyone. Seems not to be the case though. Read and write bits get set, but not the execute bit. Is there some gap in my understanding, or is... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tphyahoo
2 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to trigger a script based on another log file.

I need to execute my script as soon as one log file arrives. This log file is named as logyymmdd. I need to add trigger to my script based on this logfile. Please guide. (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: nishigupta
1 Replies
Login or Register to Ask a Question