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Hi,

I need to move a certain number of files every 10 minutes from one folder to another. I have written the script below, however its not working, please advise.

#! /bin/ksh
start()
{

mv /test1/$(head -1000 /movetst) /test2/
sleep 600
}

stop()
{
exit
}

ls ti* > /movetest
count = cat /movetst | wc -l
if [ $count -eq 0 ]
then
start
else
stop
fi

Thanks&Regards,
Amit

Something like this!

Code:

#! /bin/zsh

while :
do
  ls -1 somefile* | while read file
  do
    mv ./$file /anotherdir/$file
  done
  sleep 600
done

exit 0