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Old 11-19-2015
Error while moving files and deleting
Team i am trying to delete files which are older than 1 day from 1 path (assuming already files are existed ) .

From another path we are trying to move files .like below .While executing this i m getting this error .

Code:
mv: cannot stat `/backup/db_backups/FULL/*': No such file or directory

But i am sure /backup/db_backups/FULL folder is existed and its bash ..

Any suggessions ??

evn rm command ran for the first time properly but 2nd iteration onwords its not removing files though we have older files


Code:
#PURGE OLD BACKUPS from /backup_LOCAL/db_backups

cd /backup_LOCAL/db_backups/FULL/
find /backup_LOCAL/db_backups/FULL -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \;

# MOVE BACKUPS TO backup_LOCAL/db_backups FROM /backup/db_backups/

cd /backup/db_backups/FULL
mv /backup/db_backups/FULL/*.* /backup_LOCAL/db_backups/FULL/

Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-19-2015 at 05:44 PM.. Reason: Fix CODE and ICODE tags.
# 2  
Old 11-19-2015
Post the result of ls -la /backup/db_backups/FULL/.
# 3  
Old 11-19-2015
Code:
mv: cannot stat `/backup/db_backups/FULL/*': No such file or directory

This occurs when the shell can not expand the * to any meaningful file name. It is not complaining about the directory FULL not existing but about * not being a file.
If all files matching that pattern has been moved or deleted previously, the shell does not have any to expand later on and it passes the * to the command.
# 4  
Old 11-20-2015
Output of ls -la

Code:
4096 Nov 19 10:30 .
4096 Nov 15 05:45 ..
Nov 19 10:30 X.gz
Nov 19 10:30 y.gz
Nov 19 10:30 yz.txt
Nov 19 10:30 1.txt

so it has both .txt and .gz files, suggest some aleternative how can we make this successful ?

---------- Post updated at 08:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 07:49 AM ----------

I see that mv command is working manually but if i add it in bash and run .sh its giving error .

Code:
mv: cannot stat `/backup/db_backups/INCRMENTAL/*.*': No such file or directory

How can we overcome this error ?
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Mod Comment Please use CODE tags (not ICODE tags) when displaying full-line and multi-line code segments, sample input, and sample output.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 11-20-2015 at 12:05 PM.. Reason: Change ICODE tags to CODE tags.
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