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Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:14:48 +1000 (EST)
From: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au>
To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Script Question
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote:

> Am running FBSD 4.5 and would like to come up with a simple script that
> could monitor a file size, say 2MB and then send an email notice once 2MB
> is reached. I would use cron to run it on intervals.

#!/bin/sh

AWK=/usr/bin/awk
FILE=foo
LS=/bin/ls
SIZE=2048

if [ `${LS} -s ${FILE} | ${AWK} '{ print $1 }'` -gt ${SIZE} ]; then
    echo File ${FILE} is too large
fi

Andrew


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