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Hello,

Little new to unix scripting. I need to create a script that will do the following.

Check in a directory for a file that will be present between 19:00 and 23:00. If the file is present a e-mail then needs to be sent to myself confirming. I did write something basic...as below...

if [[ -d filename]]; then
mailx -s "File Present" xxx@xxx.com

However as I am new to this I have no idea to get the script to check only for a file for that days time stamp. As it stands the script would confirm the presence of the file even if was yesterdays.

On a side how do I get the script to shell out once completed?

Thanks

How about this.

Code:

find dir -newerat "19:00" -print0 | xargs -0 mailx -s "File Present" xxx@xxx.com

If you want by modification then use -newermt instead of -newerat in the options.
Regards.
Gaurav.

Hi Thanks for the reply. However I am still having issues. I guess I need to check if a file has been recieved for today. The file will always have the same name however may have a different extention such as filename.tmp or filename.now. I came up with the following

Code:

RUNDATE=$(date + %b%e)
Filepmtdate=$(ls -l filename.* | awk '{print $6,$7}')

if (Filepmtdate = RUNDATE) ; then
  mailx -s "File has been Recived" xxx@xxx.com
else
  mailx -s "File has not been Recieved" xxx@xxx.com
fi

and yet this does not work. In addition I have no idea how to get the script to finish once I have initiated it. I have to ctrl D it to get back to the command line

Hi
maybe $(date + %b%e) is $(date +%b%e)

regard
jiajin