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02-02-2006

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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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