Why don't you perform the checks in your first script? It should know if it has written the files, size can be immediately checked, as well as the xyz contents...
Hello knijjar,
I have a few to questions pose in response first:-
What have you tried so far?
What OS and version are you using? It may tell us what tools you have. - Oh, okay you answered this before I pressed the submit button!
What logical process have you considered? (to help steer us to follow what you are trying to achieve)
There are probably many ways to achieve most tasks, so giving us an idea of your style and thoughts will help us guide you to an answer most suitable to you so you can adjust it to suit your needs in future.
It seems like you might need a trick to work out the time 10 minutes ago, create a reference file with the correct time stamp and then use the -newer flag of find.
Dears,
I am looking for a script which will work as a watch directory.
I ha directory which keep getting files in every 10 mins and some time delay.
I want to monitor if the directory getting the files in every 10 mins if not captured the last received file time and calculate the delay.
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I need 5 mins old logs to be dumped into a a new file.
The date formats in the two log files are
Can you suggect for both formats ?
bash-3.2$ uname -a
SunOS myserver 5.10 Generic_150400-26 sun4v sparc sun4v
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Hi All,
I have an issue which I'm trying to understand a way of doing, I have several nodes which contain syslog events which I want to force trigger an email initially (eventually leading to another method of alerting but to start with an email).
Basically the syslog file will have hours worth... (6 Replies)
Hi All!
I want to have a shell script that checks for a file in a particular folder and then if the file is not found it should wait for 30 minutes. Again check for the file, if it FOUND then successfuly exit the shell script stating the file is found. Else it should continue to wait.
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I want to grep only last 5 mins of a log file in bash
I have a syslog which contains the following
Mon Jul 11 20:47:42
Mon Jul 11 20:47:52
The following works in Unix but not in AIX . Please can you let me know as to what would be the AIX equivalent
Code: for (( i = 5; i >=0;... (1 Reply)
HI All,
I have a log file where the logs will be in the format as given below:
2011-05-25 02:32:51 INFO PROCESS STARTING
2011-05-25 02:32:52 INFO PROCESS STARTED
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I want to retrieve only the logs which are less than 5 mins older than current time using grep... (3 Replies)
Advance Thanks.
(1) I would like to know any unix/Linux command to check EOF char in a file.
(2) Or Any way I can check a file has been reached completely at machine B from machine A. Note that machine A ftp/scp the file to machine B at unknown time. (5 Replies)
Hello
We have to monitor a FTP utility where we have to monitor for checking presence of a file in directory With max time allowed for a file to stay in the directory on FTP client server as 10 mins.
The only way we are going to be able to do what we are lookign for is to write a script to... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I would like to write a script which will search a file say abc.dat in /a/b/data for 15 mins only. If the script finds the file in 15 mins then it will exit will exit sucessfully and if there is no file for 15 mins it will exit and copy the last day file (abc.dat_ddmmyyhhmmss) from... (1 Reply)
I wish to seach a Dir for a specific file, once the file is found i will perform additional logic. If the file is not found within two hours, i would like to exit.
Logically, I'm looking for the best way to approach this
Thanks for any assistance in advance.
Note: I'm using a C shell and... (2 Replies)