05-23-2008
Problem Running Touch From Script
Hi
I'm trying to touch a number of files. I thought that it would be time-saving to put all the touch commands into a script and execute the script from the command line.
This is what I did (as a test) --
- I created a small list of commands and put the commands into a text file
- I set the chmod for the files that I want to touch to 777 and the chmod for the bash script to 755
I know that each individual command in the script is OK because if I copy and paste them directly into the command line they run fine and the timestamps of the files are changes.
However, when I run the script, it seems to run OK (ie there are no error messages) but the files remain unchanged.
Here's the content of my test script:
touch -c -t 200402032227.47 "./var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/mydir/testFolder/test.txt"
touch -c -t 200302032227.47 "./var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/mydir/testFolder/test2.txt"
If anyone can see / point the way to where I'm going wrong that would be really great.
Thanks for your attention.
Viola
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. Solaris
Hi, i would like a help with this problem.
i have the following situation:
4 workstations SUNs:
SunOS porsche 5.8 Generic_117350-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
SunOS jaguar 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-100
SunOS mercedes 5.8 Generic_117350-18 sun4u sparc... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: dougpss
2 Replies
2. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi friends,
i have written one small script named as "size.sh".....
while running its giving
syntax error at line no 2: 'str=$' unexpected.
How to run this file ??? please help me.
file content is :
-----------------------------
#!/bin/sh
str=$( df -k | grep /usr/local)... (14 Replies)
Discussion started by: samfrance
14 Replies
3. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers
hey,
i'm trying to run several processes due 2 loops :
the code is:
cd ${TIBCO_HOME}/tra/domain/${DOMAIN}/application/
for app_name in ls *
do
echo $app_name
if && && ;
then
exit
else
echo $app_name
cd $app_name
pwd
for ps_name in ls *.sh
do
echo... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ohadr
2 Replies
4. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi All,
I am running a script which is present on remote machine using ssh command.
the remote script is failing when try to load a property file. It says file does not exist.
Any idea what should be the problem for this.
Thanks
Supriya. (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: supriyabv
7 Replies
5. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I have following K script, that is in rc0.d directory to be run on shutdown. It's linked using the 'ln' command to init.d.Can anyone tell me as to why it's not running, or if i have incorrect syntax?I get:
"test: argument expected
type=uname -p
+ "
When running it with sh -x
... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: darrlaw
8 Replies
6. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi,
I'm trying to run a simple shell script whose contents are pasted below.
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo $PATH
performbuild
{
echo "Inside performBuild function"
}
echo "Main Shell started"
performbuild
echo "Main Shell ended"
DV> ls -ltr
total 48
-rwxr-xr-x 1 pb5377 it-ibm ... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: blp_18
5 Replies
7. Shell Programming and Scripting
I am trying to use the CRON utility in Fedora 11 & CentOS...
I intend to run a script which pops up a warning message every hour and i made the following entry using "CRONTAB -e "
* * * * * sh /bin/myscript.sh
But this does not seem to be running.
Another thing to note is that,... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Vabiosis
4 Replies
8. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
I have a script that calls another program/script, xxx, to run in the background. Supposedly this program at most should finish within five (5) minutes so after five (5) minutes, I run some other steps to run the script into completion.
My problem is sometimes the program takes... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: newbie_01
5 Replies
9. Shell Programming and Scripting
Hi all,
Running follow command on terminal;
$ glance -T cloudlive -I ubuntu -K ubuntu123 -N \
http://127.0.0.1:5000/v2.0/OpenX add name="cirros" is_public=true \
container_format=ovf disk_format=raw < \
/srv/cirros-0.3.0-x86_64-disk.img
It works without problem.
Putting it on a... (5 Replies)
Discussion started by: satimis
5 Replies
10. Solaris
Hi guys!
I created a backup script that works fine when I run manually, but when I put a crontab job to execute it the result are not the expected. (not a time problem).
Here is my script:
bash-3.00# cat /bk_tool/backup2.sh
#!/usr/bin/csh
clear
set DIR_HOST='SCP08'
... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: andredemartini
3 Replies
LEARN ABOUT LINUX
shtool-move
SHTOOL-MOVE.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-MOVE.TMP(1)
NAME
shtool-move - GNU shtool enhanced mv(1) replacement
SYNOPSIS
shtool move [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-e|--expand] [-p|--preserve] src-file dst-file
DESCRIPTION
This is a mv(1) style command enhanced with the ability to rename multiple files in a single operation and the ability to detect and not
touch existing equal destinations files, thus preserving timestamps.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-v, --verbose
Display some processing information.
-t, --trace
Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed.
-e, --expand
Expand asterisk in src to be used as ""%"n" (where n is 1,2,...) in dst-file. This is useful for renaming multiple files at once.
-p, --preserve
Detect src-file and dst-file having equal content and not touch existing destination files, thus perserving timestamps. This is useful
for applications that monitor timestamps, i.e. suppress make(1L) repeating actions for unchanged files.
EXAMPLE
# shell script
shtool move -v -e '*.txt' %1.asc
# Makefile
scanner.c: scanner.l
lex scanner.l
shtool move -t -p lex.yy.c scanner.c
HISTORY
The GNU shtool move command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool.
SEE ALSO
shtool(1), mv(1), make(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-MOVE.TMP(1)