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Old 11-07-2017
You are still ignoring the fact the a file might still be arriving as you copy it, with the result that the copy may not be the entire file.
sorry, I missed your comment about .temp in post 5.

Why not simply modify the process that renames the file to also do the copy.
Last edited by jgt; 11-07-2017 at 05:54 PM..
# 9  
Old 11-08-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by sadique.manzar
hereis what i am trying:

Code:
#!/bin/sh
DATE=`date +"%d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S"`
path=/xyz/S1
while true
do
    for  files in `printf "%s\n" $path/*.RTM 
    do
        if [[ -f $files ]] && [[ -s $files ]]
        then
            cp -n $files  /xxx
        else
            echo "file doesn't exist" >/dev/null
        fi    
    done
done

The echo-line doesn't make any sense. You are writing something to the bitbucket? What for? Also, you create a variable DATE, but never use it. Finally, shell scripts which really loop permanently and do file operations continuously, might consume a considerable amount of processing power. You should at least sleep one or two seconds between iterations.

Having said this, rsync might be easier to use:

Code:
rsync --min-size=1 $path/*.RTM /xxx

This obviates the need for the nested for loop and the checking for the file size.
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