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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Problem Running Touch From Script Post 302198720 by Viola on Friday 23rd of May 2008 07:40:26 PM
Old 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) --
  1. I created a small list of commands and put the commands into a text file
  2. 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
 

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uudemon(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							uudemon(4)

NAME
uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour, uudemon.poll - Administrative shell scripts for polling remote systems, cleaning up spool directories, reporting status to the system administrator, and routine invocations of the uuxqt and uusched daemons SYNOPSIS
These shell scripts reside in the following directory: /usr/lib/uucp DESCRIPTION
All the scripts can be run from the command line or can be run automatically by the cron daemon. To automatically run the scripts, remove the comment character (#) from the beginning of the relevant line in the /var/spool/cron/crontabs/uucp file. This script reports status to the system administrator. It issues the uustat command to find out the status of uucp jobs. It mails the results to the uucp login ID. The script may be modified to send mail to any login ID such as the uucp administrative login ID (uucpa) or root. This script cleans up the /var/spool/uucp and /var/spool/uucppublic directories by running the uucleanup command. The uucleanup com- mand is run with the following parameters: -C7, -D7, X2, -o2, -W1. This script runs the uusched and uuxqt daemons in the background. This script polls the systems listed in the /usr/lib/uucp/Poll file. The uudemon.poll script should be scheduled before the uudemon.hour script. This allows uudemon.poll to create any command files before cron runs the uudemon.hour script. FILES
Contains the uudemon.admin, uudemon.cleanu, uudemon.hour and uudemon.poll files. Contains the uucp file. RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: cron(8), uucleanup(8), uusched(8), uuxqt(1) Files: /usr/lib/uucp delim off uudemon(4)
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