I'm running Hylafax and receiving upwards of 1000 faxes daily. Sometimes I will receive partial pages that are less than 10k in
size. What I'm trying to do is ignore those and copy the ones larger than 10k into my faxes directory.

Here's my basic script so far.

#!/bin/bash

file="fax000038578.tif"
declare -i fsize
fsize=$(stat -c %s "$file")

if [ "$fsize" -gt 10000 ]
then
cp $file /home/user/faxes
fi



It works fine if I name the specific file as shown above. However, the file names change each time a fax is received. They will always have the tif extension. The number associated to the fax (000038578) does not always increase incrementally though.

I tried file="*.tif" but that didn't work. Stat returned no such file error.

So basically, I need file to be a variable with a variable file name with a tif extension inside it.

Thanks in advance

David Elliott

Hi,

You could use find to filter out files that end in .tif with

find /search-directory/ -name "*.tif"

where you replace search-directory with the path your .tif-files are in.

To put it in a for-loop covering multiple files you would write

for file in $(find /directory/ -name "*.tif");
do
<your code>
done

Cheers

How about passing the filename as an argument to the script?
--- rod.

How about just using find - say your faxes are in /faxdir and you want to copy to /home/user/faxes all files > 10k then :

Through trial and error from your suggestions, here's what I was able to use successfully.

file=$(find /var/spool/hylafax/recvq/ -name "*.pdf" -size +6k)
mv $file /home/fax-user/Desktop/ReceivedFaxes


I then created a cron job to run the script every few minutes.

thanks for all your help.