Shell Programming and Scripting

I took out the break line. that would end the script after the 1st time file is found. Sounds like you want a cron that will look for incoming files on a regular basis? sleep 600 is 10 minutes. Of course you'lll need to move the file once found, or the next interation is going to find the old file.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

while true; do
  if [[ -s file001.txt ]]; then
    # Found the file do stuff here
    print "found file!"
   else 
        print "File not found!"
  fi
sleep 600
done

Good evening Denn Thanks a lot for your input!
I tried that but it gives following message
""Can't find file File not found!
Can't find file found file!"""" it says found file once thats pasted into the folder i am checking for.Also it goes in the loop with out breaking i want to break the loop once file is found.
kindly let me know where this is going wrong!
Thanks again....
Thanks & regards
KPIT

If you're not using ksh, the print command is something else entirely -- a command which expects a file argument, and complains "Can't find file <argument>" when the "file" you give it doesn't exist. Try replace print with echo or printf instead.

Scroll back and reread some earlier posts; denn took out the break but it's easy to put back in -- just scroll further back to find a version which has it.

Hi Era,Denn,matrix & all others

Thanks this works probably i didnt realise ksh & sh...
now it gives me the desired results..thanks a lot for your support

I inserted the break & loop i wanted for specific time

Thanks Again.....
Regards
KPIT

Hi all,

I got the previus code working thanks for that i also have an sftp script working,now my reqmnt is once i login to the sftp server i want to check the arrival of file & do some stuff how do i achieve that..the code with this does not work with sftp pls help
Thanks in Advance
KPIT