Automated file creation

[pmcwill]

Can anyone help with my query?

A host system is dependant on receiving an FTP of a file, but some days my system isn't used and therefore the file isn't created. I'm told I need to have a blank file ready to FTP if the system isn't used that day.

I need to do a find in a directory for files with .xmt extension and if the file doesn't exist i need to create a blank one.

Can anyone suggest a script to use, i'll then add it to the cron to run automatically

[Richard Hepworth · Accepted solution]

just use touch /filename. If the file already exists it will just have it's modification time updated, if it doesn't exist it will be created

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

Why not something as simple as:

# FILE=/var/tmp/somefile;[ -f ${FILE} ] || touch ${FILE}

Regards!

...JRF...

[Ganesan R]

ls //*.xmt 2> /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
touch filename.xmt
fi