How to run a job that will check if files exist?

[nataliafoster26]

I have a folder 'realtime' that has about 15 txt files(test1.txt,other.txt etc), theres is other jobs nothing related to coldfusion that if something goes down then the file wont exist anymore.

So I want to create a job that if a txt file doesnt exist then it will sent me a email.

what would be the best way to do something like this?

would i have to check for each individual txt file , something like ??

<cfset Pathtest = "\\folder1\dept\Alerts\other.txt">
<cfif !fileExists(Pathtest)>
  <cfmail ...>
  sent me a email
  </cfmail>
</cfif>

[WolfShade · Accepted solution]

If all the files are in the same directory, you can create a comma-delimited list (or even an array) of the filenames and loop through that.

<cfset fileList = "test1.txt,other.txt,test999.txt" />
<cfloop list="#fileList#" index="idx">
    <cfif NOT FileExists('\path\to\files\#idx#')>
        ... email me ...
    </cfif>
</cfloop>

HTH,

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[WolfShade]

Thank you for marking my answer correct.

V/r,

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