size of file alert

[billy1]

Hi,

Does anybody know of a script that will tell me when a file is just about to reach a certain size. We have a file which we don't want going over 2GB so when it's approaching this size it would be handy to get an email alerting us.

Any ideas ?

 

[dickiebird]

#!/bin/ksh
chkfilesize=`ls -l myfile|awk '{print $5}'`
if[ chkfilesize -gt 2000000000 ]
then
mail -s "File Size exceeded" username
fi

should do it ! Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[dickiebird]

there's more :
Call the above script from the cron every hour/day
or whatever suits. Dickie Bird (-)))

 

[billy1]

I'll try that out - many thanks!

 

[vgersh99]

shouldn't it be:

typeset -i chkfilesize=`ls -l myfile|awk '{print $5}'`
if[ ${chkfilesize} -gt 2000000000 ] vlad
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