Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I have a requirement where I need to monitor the files in a directory for 15 secs and if the size of the files are not changing within that time I would like to merge all the data in those files and move it to another directory with a time stamp

For eg dir1 I have 10 files and after 15 secs if I don't see them changing then merge all the files and move it to another directory say input/Mergefiles_Timestamp .

I am planning to perform this activity for every 2 mins in a cron tab .

What have you tried so far?

Use find, like

Code:

cd directory
while :
do
FileChanged=`find .  - mmin -15 -print |wc -l`
if [ $FileChanged -eq 0] 
then
cat * >input/mergefiles_`date +%s`
fi
Sleep 15
done