Re^3: Check multiple file names exist in directory and create another trigger file after existing files processed

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What I've done that covers many of my use cases, is:

Watch & wait for the first type of file to appear.
Sleep for a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the task
Proceed to verify the other matching files exist, and carry on with the task, else loop back to 1

Sometimes the verification is a check to see if the file has grown larger; if so, then it goes back to sleep repeatedly until the download/copy is finished.

For checking the names, you may want to use a regex to capture the relevant part of the filename, and then look for specifically named files using that.

For example,

if ($file =~ /alphat_(.*)\.zip)
{
  my $key = $1;  # whatever was between alphat_ and the .zip bits.
  if (-f "numerict_${key}.zip && -f "updatet_${key}.zip")
  {
     print "Caught 'em all!\n";
  }  
}
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Re^4: Check multiple file names exist in directory and create another trigger file after existing files processed by vickycanada (Novice) on Nov 22, 2017 at 17:16 UTC
Hi, Thank you for the advise. I did make some changes and posted an update. Could you please take a look as well. Appreciate your help!	[reply]

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