Shell Programming and Scripting

here is the error that i get when i run the script.

mv: cannot access conf
mv: cannot access conf

so would the mv statement be written into this like so...

Code:

if [ -d /etc/dmi/conf/ ];
then
   print '/etc/dmi/conf/ does exist'
do
   mv "$?" conf.orig
else
   print '/etc/dmi/conf/ does NOT exist'
fi

nevermind. disregard my last. my test showed an error in the 'do' line.

Is the start of the script trying to rename both the files named in shell variables ${DMI_FILE} and ${SNMP_FILE} , rather than a file called "conf" in the current working directory ?
If so, then please try the construct below (untested) and remove the "echo" from the "mv" line if it does what you want. I've avoided having a shell variable called "conf" because it appears to be causing confusion! Where you had a shell variable called "conf" I have called it "filename". We are back to "bash" because I don't think that "test -e" is valid in ksh.

Code:

#!/usr/bin/bash

# My Variables
DMI_FILE="/etc/dmi/conf"
SNMP_FILE="/etc/snmp/conf"

for filename in "${DMI_FILE}" "${SNMP_FILE}"
do
        if [ -e "${filename}" ]
        then
                echo mv "${filename}" "${filename}.orig"
                echo "${filename} has been moved"
        else
                echo "${filename} does not exist"
                exit
        fi
done

actually, conf is a directory and i'm trying to move said directory (conf) to conf.orig which works just fine if i do mv /etc/dmi/conf /etc/dmi/conf.orig. but i'm working with multiple zones in solaris, and every setup I do I have a list of basic steps, which i'm trying to throw into a script.

okay, i get what you are saying.

Thanks

looks like that did the trick, methyl.

thank you both for your feedback and suggestions.