How to find if there are new files in a directory every 2 minutes in shell script?

Question

I have a directory called /home/user/local. Every two minutes or so, a new file is dumped into this directory. I need to check this directory every 2 minutes to see

Answer 1

Lets say your variable is called $listOF

Create a script:

listOfFiles=`ls -t /home/user/local`
for i in $listOfFiles
do
echo "$listOF" | grep $i
if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]]
then
listOF=$listOF" "$i
fi
done

And put this script into the crontab by cmd: crontab -e in format:

1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19,21,23,25,27,29,31,33,35,37,39,41,43,45,47,49,51,53,55,57,59 * * * *