Shell Programming and Scripting

Done that, it says: tr: extra operand `feedgen.sh`
only one string may be given when deleting without squeezing repeats.

Result is empty feedgen1.sh file

So try:

Code:

tr -d '\r' < feedgen.sh > feedgen1.sh

If you try something and it doesn't work, it would help if you tell us it didn't work instead of having us assume that everything that was suggested worked.

I fixed errors with dos2unix command, but when I run script, there is no output in rss folder, and there is no errors reported after running the script. I inserted pdf in SYSDIR before running script.

You have a loop over all PDF files in and under $SYSDIR in your main loop that includes a call to rss_body which includes a loop over all PDF files in and under $SYSDIR. This is almost certainly not what you want, but without a better description of where PDF files are located in your file hierarchy and what XML files you're trying to create, I'm not clear on what you want to accomplish.

What OS are you using? How are you invoking feedgen1.sh?

Are you getting any output at all from feedgen1.sh?

Are any files being created by your current script? (And, if so, what is in them?)

What is the output from the commands:

Code:

ls -l feedgen1.sh
find $SYSDIR -type f -name '*.pdf' -exec ls -l {} +
find $RSSDIR -type d -exec ls -ld {} +
find $RSSDIR -type f -name '*.xml' -exec ls -l {} +

Is the output you see from the above commands representative of the locations of the PDF files you want to report in your XML files (or do you just have 1 or 2 PDF files installed for testing)? Is the output you see from the above commands representative of the directory structure you hope to see under $RSSDIR?

What XML files are you hoping to create from the output shown by the above commands?

The variable DESC is unset in this script, but $DESC is used in rss_body. What is the description tag in your XML files supposed to contain for your PDF files?

Files will be located in subfolders inside Intranet folder specified in the script. I will upload them manually, daily. I want script to create xml file for rss feed, for new files uploaded. OS is Ubuntu server 14.04, script is invoked by cronjob. There is no output at all. PDFs will be uploaded in folders, not created by script. I will try your code in monday, at work.

OK. So you will have PDF files in multiple folders in the file hierarchy rooted in $SYSDIR.

What are you hoping to produce? Are you trying to produce:What data is supposed to be included with the <description> tags in your XML file(s) for each PDF file?

If you are on Linux, you might consider using inofitywait in your main section.
Something like :

Code:

#!/bin/bash
DIR=/dir/to/watch
inotifywait -m -e create --format %f $DIR | while read File
do
	case ${File##*.} in
	[Pp][Dd][Ff])
		printf "%s\n" "Found pdf file $File with ext ${File##*.}" # here you will call function per detected pdf filename, log, handle errors
	;;
	esac
done