How to write a script to find new files in a directory?

[tbtcust]

Hello everyone. I am brand new to UNIX and need write a script that will run every ten mins. The script will look at a directory full of files that have been FTPed to it. The logic will be:
1) Look at a directory for new files that have an extension of ".send"
2) If there are new ".send" files, email the file names only to an email address
3) Do nothing if there are no new ".send" files

Is this possible? How would I code this in a script?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[PHV]

man cron
man touch
man find
man sendmail

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[razalas]

When we do this sort of operation at my installation, we generally rename each file as we process it (e.g. rename whatever.send to whatever.sent). You don't have to do that, but for us, it makes it obvious which files were processed.

Code what you mean,
and mean what you code!
But by all means post your code!

Razalas

 

[sbrews]

While I somewhat agree with previous comments - one should read the man pages - sometimes that is just not enough... an actual example is needed to flick on that light of comprehension.

We have a script that does something similar to what you are asking:

SRC="/some/place"
DST="/some/other/place/"

cd $SRC
find . ! -name . -prune -type f -mmin -1 -exec cp {} $DST \;

What the above does is:
- define the source and destination directories
- change to the source directory
- look for all files that are new in the past minute - in this directory only, no subdirs
- if new files found, copy to destination location.

Apply your requirements to the above logic and update/modify as needed to obtain your desired results.