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02-01-2006
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Script that moves itself
Hello all, I'm new here, so if this is in the wrong place please feel free to move it.
 As a challenge to myself, I've decided I want to make a "alive" script. Well not really, but almost. I want to make a script that will rove around my hard drive in the background (actually "moving" itself), and record the files it sees. Sorta like a mini mars rover... in my computer. I'm on Mac OS 10.4.4, so I'm on UNIX/Darwin underneath, and my general question is: Can I make a script that can actually move itself? I can see the obvious difficulties; "Item in use, permission denied!" etc... I'd like to be able to do it without using another script, but somehow I think I already know the answer, but please tell me I'm wrong. 
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02-02-2006
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Have you considered the "cd" command?
If you want to use your model, then maybe something like this... Code:
.............. cat $0 > /new/path/myfile.sh chmod +x /new/path/myfile.sh /new/path/myfile.sh exit
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02-02-2006
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Quote:
Perhaps something like that : Code:
.............. target_file=/new/path/myfile.sh if [ $0 != $target_file ] then cp $0 $target_file chmod +x $target_file $target_file fi exit
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