diff --git a/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/cron/awips b/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/cron/awips
index 59f8287632..3fe285d633 100644
--- a/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/cron/awips
+++ b/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/cron/awips
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 # ascat grib2
 #10 * * * * /awips2/ldm/bin/ascat_grib.sh >& /dev/null 2>&1
 */5 * * * * /bin/perl /awips2/ldm/dev/purgeRadar.pl >>/awips2/ldm/dev/logs/purgeRadar.log 2>&1
-*/2 * * * * /bin/perl /awips2/ldm/dev/checkFileTime.pl >>/awips2/ldm/dev/logs/checkFileTime.log 2>&1
+*/2 * * * * bash -l /awips2/ldm/dev/checkFileTime.sh >>/awips2/ldm/dev/logs/checkFileTime.log 2>&1
 30 3 * * * /bin/perl /awips2/dev/updateNDM.pl >>/awips2/dev/logs/updateNDM.log 2>&1
  
 # LDM-6.8.1+ metrics gathering
diff --git a/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/dev/checkFileTime.pl b/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/dev/checkFileTime.pl
deleted file mode 100644
index 45fcb0c435..0000000000
--- a/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/dev/checkFileTime.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/perl
-
-#$path="/awips2/data_store/grid";
-
-@paths=("/awips2/data_store/grid","/awips2/data_store/modelsounding");
-foreach $path(@paths)
-{
-
-#find files that haven't been touched in the past 5 minutes 
-  $syscmd="find $path -name \"*-concat-*\" -mmin +2"; 
-
-  print "\t$syscmd\n";
-
-  @output=`$syscmd`;
-
-  foreach $line(@output)
-  {
-    chomp $line;
-    if($line!~/\/staging\//) { next; }
-    @dirs=split(/\//, $line);
-    $outPath="";
-    for($i=0; $i<$#dirs-1; $i++)
-    { $outPath.=$dirs[$i]."/";  }
-    $file=$dirs[-1];
-
-    $syscmd = "mv $line $outPath";
-    print "\t$syscmd\n";
-    `$syscmd`;
-
-   # $syscmd=" /awips2/python/bin/python /awips2/ldm/dev/notifyAWIPS2-unidata.py $outPath/$file";
-    $syscmd="sudo su - awips -c \"/awips2/python/bin/python /awips2/fxa/bin/src/qpidNotify/qpidNotify.py $outPath/$file\"";
-
-    print "\t$syscmd\n";
-    `$syscmd`;
-  }
-}
diff --git a/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/dev/checkFileTime.sh b/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/dev/checkFileTime.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..223d01616b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/rpms/awips2.upc/Installer.ldm/patch/dev/checkFileTime.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Concatenate grib and bufr files before ingesting them into edex
+# to reduce the number of jobs edex processes
+#
+# Author: srcarter@ucar.edu
+# Author: tiffanym@ucar.edu
+#
+# Updates
+# Jan 12, 2024 - First stab at translating from our existing perl script
+#
+#
+
+# We want to concatenate grib and bufr files
+paths=("/awips2/data_store/grid" "/awips2/data_store/modelsounding")
+
+for path in "${paths[@]}";
+do
+	# Check for relevant files that haven't been touched in the last two minutes
+	IFS=$'\n'
+	files=($(find $path -name "*-concat-*" -mmin +2 | grep "staging"))
+	unset IFS
+
+#	echo ${#files[@]}
+	for file in "${files[@]}";
+	do
+		/awips2/python/bin/python /awips2/ldm/dev/notifyAWIPS2-unidata.py $file
+#		/awips2/python/bin/python /awips2/fxa/bin/src/qpidNotify.py $file
+		echo $file
+	done
+done
+