I am writing a script and running into some problems.

The script is supposd to see if a file exists, then loop until the file is present, checking periodically unti the file exists. For test purposes it is set to sleep for 15 minutes and loop again.


Here is the script :


#!/bin/sh

# initialize true and false values
FALSE=1  
TRUE=0

# initializes FILEEXISTS variable
$FILEEXISTS = [ -e tfile.txt;


# test if file exist; if not then loop until it does exist
while (${FILEEXISTS} -eq ${FALSE});  do
 ${FILEEXISTS}= { [ -e tfile.txt}  # TEST IF FILE EXISTS
 # WAIT 15 MINUTES and check again for file
 exec sleep 15m
done
   

# if file is present use wget to download specified file
if ($FILEEXISTS=${TRUE}); then
   exec wget



# replace with a URL for test purposes

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I am running this as root and it keeps telling me "permission denied".

This is my first Bash script and i am not sure of the syntax either.


Thank You in advance,
Tom

Slackware 10.1
/trig/  is the directory i created for this

Thank You very much.
Tom

Did you remember to chmod to 700?
 
# chmod 700 /trig/trigger.sh

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