script to get latest file and email

If I am understanding you correctly


You want to read the latest file from a folder

 

while :
do
   folder=/path/to/folder
   file=$(ls -lt $folder | head -1 | awk '{print $1}')

   #email it
   echo "lastest file" | mutt -a $file EMAIL@address
   sleep 30s
done

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In awk about it would be I think $9.  Try that.  Sorry about that.  If you don't have mutt, you can use mailx or mail, but that would put the text in your body.
Your command would look like
cat $file | mail -s "SUBJECT" email@address

To get the latest file I would also try the following command.

files=$(ls -t)
latest=$(${files[0]})

hi farzani ,


thnx for your help mate,,, but i also want to make sure it is based on creation date, as well as if the file is already sent it should not be sent again..


Hope its clear

-t option sorts by modification time and that is probably what you need.  So, if the same file is being written to over and over, you need modification time.  And if a new file is being created, still modification time should work

lets take out email part.

#!/bin/bash

while :
do
   folder="/mnt/test3/"
   file=$(ls -lt $folder | head -1 | awk '{print $9}')

   #email it
   echo $file
done


this gives me :
galert2.sh: line 5: /tmp/: is a directory
galert2.sh: line 5: /tmp/: is a directory


Please help

oh sorry i changed directory to /tmp instead of /mnt/test3

Run the following and send me the output


#!/bin/bash

folder="/mnt/test3/"
file=$(ls -lt $folder)
echo FILES ARE: $file

latest_long=$(ls -l | head -1)
echo LONG IS $latest_long

latest=$(ls -l | awk '{print $9}')
echo $latest

The above one is the troubleshooting script to see what is going on

:17 2009-10-12 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 17:11 2009-10-09 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 17:10 2009-10-08 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 17:08 2009-10-07 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 17:06 2009-10-06 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 17:01 2009-10-05 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 17:00 2009-10-02 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:59 2009-10-01 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:56 2009-09-30 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:53 2009-09-29 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:52 2009-09-28 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:47 2009-09-25 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:47 2009-09-26 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:45 2009-09-24 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:43 2009-09-23 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:41 2009-09-22 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:40 2009-09-21 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:35 2009-09-18 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:33 2009-09-17 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:31 2009-09-16 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:29 2009-09-15 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:28 2009-09-14 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:22 2009-09-11 drwxrwxrwx 3 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:20 2009-09-10 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:18 2009-09-09 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:17 2009-09-08 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:16 2009-09-07 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:10 2009-09-04 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:08 2009-09-03 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:06 2009-09-02 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:05 2009-09-01 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 16:04 2009-08-31 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:58 2009-08-28 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:56 2009-08-27 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:55 2009-08-26 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:52 2009-08-25 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:48 2009-08-24 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:47 2009-08-21 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:45 2009-08-20 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:43 2009-08-19 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:41 2009-08-18 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:40 2009-08-17 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:34 2009-08-14 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:33 2009-08-13 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:31 2009-08-12 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:29 2009-08-11 drwxrwxrwx 3 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:28 2009-08-10 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:23 2009-08-07 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:21 17052010 drwxrwxrwx 2 root staff 0 2010-09-28 15:19 10052010 drwx------ 2 1114 1029 0 2008-08-08 12:48 lost+found
LONG IS total 6276

Ok, run this please:

#!/bin/bash

folder="/mnt/test3/"
latest_long=$(ls -lt $folder | find -type f | head -1)

echo LATEST LONG: $latest_long
echo

latest=$(ls -l | awk '{print $9}')
echo LATEST:  $latest

LATEST LONG: ./var/lock/evms-engine

LATEST: -> -> -> -> ->

Sorry replace the last two lines

latest=$(echo $latest_long | awk '{print $9}')
echo "LATEST : $latest"

LATEST LONG: ./var/lock/evms-engine
LATEST :

Sorry one more, unfortunately, I don't have a terminal myself


#!/bin/bash

folder="/mnt/test3/"
latest_long=$(ls -lt $folder | grep -v "^d" | head -1)

echo LATEST LONG: $latest_long
echo

latest=$(echo $latest_long | awk '{print $8}')
echo "LATEST : $latest"

LATEST LONG: total 928

LATEST :

One last

#!/bin/bash

folder="/mnt/test3/"
latest_long=$(ls -lrt $folder | grep -v "^d" | tail -1)

echo LATEST LONG: $latest_long
echo

latest=$(echo $latest_long | awk '{print $8}')
echo "LATEST : $latest"

LATEST LONG: -rwxrw-rw- 1 1070 root 0 2011-03-10 13:35 New Text Document.txt

LATEST : New


some success now all we want to see whts in tht file .... appreciate your help

You know what, just do awk '{print $NF}'

So change the second last line to

latest=$(echo $latest_long | awk '{print $NF}')


Sorry, was too tired and don't even have a terminal in front of me

still unable to display file contents

Hi, it is morning and I can think now.
I thought you would assemble it now.  But it is alright.  Here it goes.

If you want to display the contents of the file once, here is the code.
 

cat $(ls -Ft | grep -v '/' | head -1)

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If however you want to send it via email, in the body and only once, then:
 

cat $(ls -Ft | grep -v '/' | head -1) | mail -s "Latest file" email_address@domain.com

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If however, you want to repeat this process every 30 seconds, this is what you would write

while :
do
   cat $(ls -Ft | grep -v '/' | head -1) | mail -s "Latest file" Email_Address@domain.com
   #wait for 30 seconds
   sleep 30s
done

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I hope this is what you wanted.
Cheers

Hi,

good stuff only one issue.... there are all.txt files in there.... and i get this error when i run this script.

cat: 5660.TXT*: No such file or directory

Any input?

Sorry mate for being a such a pain... but u did a gr8 job ......

Glad to help