#!/bin/bash APP=oldpcap lf=/tmp/$APP-pidLockFile # create empty lock file if none exists cat /dev/null >> $lf read lastPID < $lf # if lastPID is not null and a process with that pid exists , exit [ ! -z "$lastPID" -a -d /proc/$lastPID ] && exit echo $$ > $lf # Get the data OLDPCAP=$(find /host/nsm/pcap -type f -exec stat -c'%n %Z' {} + | sort | grep -v "\." | head -n 1 | awk {'print $2'}) DATE=$(date +%s) AGE=$(($DATE - $OLDPCAP)) echo "pcapage seconds=$AGE"