KSH script please help

[sjcrane]

I need a ksh script that will find the newest file in a directory:

root@phxsa2 in /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request
# ls -t | head -n1|cat
izdata_656701_20140702_64897.rejected.dat
root@phxsa2 in /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request

Then email that file to a specified user:

mail -s " BYIM rejection file for 'DATE'" user@local.org < "filename"

I am unsure of how to either assign the file to a value or send the contents of the file in the email...???

Any help would be gratefully appreciated...

 

[AIXLogician]

Ok, this is a very basic script.

How often the file is written in the directory?

If you think the file is generated every 10 minutes you can add a crontab.

#!/bin/ksh
DIR="/usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request"
ls -ltr $DIR | tail -1 |awk '{print $9}' |while read i
do
uuencode $i filename |mailx -s "BYIM rejection file for $(date)" youremailaddress@provider.com
done

SARFARAZ AHMED SYED,
Sr. Systems Engineer

 

[sjcrane]

Thanks,

I added one line for it to work:

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# BYIM relect notification
# stephenc@grhc.org
set -x
cd /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request/ < - - - - - - - - - - - - Added this line
DIR="/usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request"
ls -ltr $DIR | tail -1 |awk '{print $9}' |while read i
do
uuencode $i filename |mailx -s "BYIM rejection file for $(date)" stephenc@grhc.org, laacosta@grhc.org
done
root@phxsa2 in /usr/local/scripts

For some reason it would say "INVALID DIRECTORY" when ran in my /usr/local/scripts directory.
Much appreciated !!!

 

[AIXLogician]

Why did you added

cd /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request/ < - - - - - - - - - - - - Added this line

You don't need that.

SARFARAZ AHMED SYED,
Sr. Systems Engineer

 

[sjcrane]

I had to modify the file because it was grabbing a directory /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request/.more which was the last entry in "ls -ltr"

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# BYIM relect notification
# stephenc@grhc.org
set -x
cd /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request/
DIR="/usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request"
#ls -ltr $DIR | tail -1 |awk '{print $9}' |while read i
ls -ltr $DIR | tail -2 |awk '{print $9}' |while read i
do
#uuencode $i filename |mailx -s "BYIM rejection file for $(date)" stephenc@grhc.org, laacosta@grhc.org
uuencode $i filename |mailx -s "BYIM rejection file for $(date)" stephenc@grhc.org
done


===========

# ./byim_daily_reject.ksh
+ cd /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request/
+ DIR=/usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request
+ ls -ltr /usr2/HHM/pub/SMM/transfer/request
+ tail -2
+ awk {print $9}
+ read i
+ uuencode izdata_656701_20140613_42644.rejected.dat filename
+ date
+ mailx -s BYIM rejection file for Thu Jul 10 14:00:10 MST 2014 stephenc@grhc.org
+ read i
+ uuencode .work filename < - - - - - -- - - - Do not want this one...........................
+ date
+ mailx -s BYIM rejection file for Thu Jul 10 14:00:11 MST 2014 stephenc@grhc.org
+ read i
root@phxsa2 in /usr/local/scripts
#

Now it sends 2 emails. One with the bad data and one with the good

Is there a way to "ls -ltr $DIR | tail -2 |awk '{print $9}' |while read i" with only sending the one (1) file?