Hi,

I am running this is korn shell

cp $source/$fname $dest/dir && rm $source/$fname

rm: /dir/file not removed: No such file or directory

Space characters in the filenames?

cp "$source/$fname" "$dest/dir" && rm "$source/$fname"

no there are no space characters in the filenames...

Code looks ok..

If you don't mind me asking, did you check if the file to be cp'd and rm's really is existing?

Please post the full script.
Do you have any filenames with funny characters e.g. asterisk?

The for loop is using

 cd $source
for fname in `ls`
do
cp $source/$fname $dest/dir && rm $source/$fname
done