Scripting

[donnaa]

Hi,

I don't know if I'm in the right forum but I found this site from the net. I'm looking for somebody who could help me with simple shell scripting. I want to create a script that will look at certain/multiple directories and then tell me if those dirs have contents/files in them and alert me if they contain files. I want to put this in a simple shell script, the directories are fixed ones.

Appreciate your help!!!

Thanks!!!

[skhanal]

You can use VBSCript (assuming you are in Windows environment).

There are many sample scripts here

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tre...er/default.asp

[jkoopmann]

if you are in a unix env i would do something like this. don't know the type of alert you are looking for. you will have to put that call in the code.

#!/bin/sh
echo "/bin:*.exe" > directory.lst
echo "/bin:*.dmp" >> directory.lst
echo "/usr/lib:*.a" >> directory.lst
for DIRECTORY in `cat directory.lst`
do
DIR=`echo $DIRECTORY | awk -F: '{print $1}'`
PATTERN=`echo $DIRECTORY | awk -F: '{print $2}'`
FILECOUNT=`ls -l ${DIR}/${PATTERN} | wc -l`
echo "${FILECOUNT} Files in Directory:Pattern ${DIRECTORY}"
test $FILECOUNT -gt 0
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo "Alert"
fi
done

[donnaa]

I'm using Unix so I guess I can try this. Thanks guys for the help!!!

[donnaa]

Hi jkoopman,

I hope you could help me with another scripting problem of mine. I need to monitor certain directories and check whether the files in those directories are updated. By updated I mean that they were placed there within the last five minutes. If no file/s is in the directories within the last five minutes, I wanted to be alerted of it. How do I create a shell script for this?

Hope you can help me with this, I really am not familiar with shell scripting and having such a hard time trying to figure out how to do it.