cp: cannot stat `/opt/IBM/cofig.sh': No such file or directory


 
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Old 08-21-2008
cp: cannot stat `/opt/IBM/cofig.sh': No such file or directory

Hi all,
I'm trying to write a single line command to do this
1. ssh user@hostA
2. Check whether the dir /opt/IBM/ exists
3. copy -a /opt/IBM/config.sh /opt/IBM/config.sh.old

This is the command

ssh -v user@hostA "test -d /opt/IBM" && cp -a /opt/IBM/config.sh /opt/IBM/config.sh.old || echo " Failed"

It fails with the following error:

cp: cannot stat `/opt/IBM/config.sh': No such file or directory
Failed

The directory exists on hostA and the file too, but I'm getting this error.
Any ideas pls? or any other way to do this in a single line command ?

uname:
Linux hostA 2.4.21-53.ELsmp #1

Thanks,
Chanti
# 2  
Old 08-21-2008
Remove all embedded ticks so entire command line passed to hostA is in double quotes and better test for file existence instead of directory.

Code:
ssh -v user@hostA "test -f /opt/IBM/config.sh && cp -a /opt/IBM/config.sh /opt/IBM/config.sh.old || echo Failed"


Last edited by shamrock; 08-21-2008 at 04:07 PM..
# 3  
Old 08-21-2008
Thank you!!
it worked.
# 4  
Old 08-21-2008
You should test for existence of the file you want to copy instead of the directory that contains it, just as Shamrock proposed.
But what is the -a in the copy command good for if you only copy a single file?
Besides, should the remote host be an AIX, as the /opt/IBM might suggest,
I doubt that its cp knows this recursive, preserve switch.
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