Put a set -x at the top of the script and run it in a terminal window to see what it is doing, a sleep of some period just before the done might be advisable (say 3 seconds?)
If the set -x spits out too much on the screen then put:
before the if line and put:
before the actual copy line instead of using set -x.
To run it as a daemon from within a terminal window you can do:
Hi All,
I have a situation where I need to copy the files having the latest date.
For example I have a file by name bas100e1_jun05. I need to copy it to bas100e1. But when a file by name bas100e1_jul05 is put in the same directory the script should copy the file having the latest month which... (34 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem.
I have some text files in a folder. The names can be like:
emp_20080307053015.dat
emp_20080306053015.dat
emp_20080305053015.dat
emp_20080304053015.dat
The date format appended is like yyyymmdd and timestamp.
What i need is i have to copy the latest file every... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have a problem.
I have some text files in a folder. The names can be like:
emp_20080307053015.dat
emp_20080306053015.dat
emp_20080305053015.dat
emp_20080304053015.dat
The date format appended is like yyyymmdd and timestamp.
What i need is i have to copy the latest file every... (12 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a folder '/samplefolder' in which i have some files like data0.txt, data1.txt and data2.txt.
I have to search the folder for existence of the file data0.txt first and if found have to copy it to some other file; next i have to search the folder for existence of file... (5 Replies)
#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..1536..1}
do
#find /home/test/Desktop/up111/workplace/Malware/$i/logs
for a in /home/test/Desktop/up111/workplace/Malware/$i/logs/*
do
#max=a
for b in /home/test/Desktop/up111/workplace/Malware/$i/logs/*
do
... (4 Replies)
Hi All,
One job in unix server will generate .csv files daily. I need to copy the latest of these .csv file from the unix server to the shared drive/folder in windows through unix script. My shared folder will look something like
W:\some folder(for example). Could any one of you please help... (3 Replies)
In linux.. In a directory there are 3 files which I want to copy only the latest file (ls -ltr myfiles*.txt|tail -1) to other directory in perl?
Could anyone please help me with the code?
Regards,
J (1 Reply)
I need to routinely cp a file out of the highest incremented folder named PROD_2_6.1_xxx where xxx (3 numerical values) is incremented only once a night starting at 100 and ending 999 over a period of time. I am not worried about copying a subset of a complete file while it is being created by some... (5 Replies)
HI Guys,
Can anyone help me to retrieve the latest file from below example using SFTP
I have below list of files in a folder
v403t.lstprgms.sortin1
val027.d099.fwest.oct2711
xcelrptd.d1400sqp.dec1713.t040459.@02del
xcelrptd.d1400sqp.dec1713.t073308.@02del... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: heye18
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escape
escape(1) Mail Avenger 0.8.3 escape(1)NAME
escape - escape shell special characters in a string
SYNOPSIS
escape string
DESCRIPTION
escape prepends a "" character to all shell special characters in string, making it safe to compose a shell command with the result.
EXAMPLES
The following is a contrived example showing how one can unintentionally end up executing the contents of a string:
$ var='; echo gotcha!'
$ eval echo hi $var
hi
gotcha!
$
Using escape, one can avoid executing the contents of $var:
$ eval echo hi `escape "$var"`
hi ; echo gotcha!
$
A less contrived example is passing arguments to Mail Avenger bodytest commands containing possibly unsafe environment variables. For
example, you might write a hypothetical reject_bcc script to reject mail not explicitly addressed to the recipient:
#!/bin/sh
formail -x to -x cc -x resent-to -x resent-cc
| fgrep "$1" > /dev/null
&& exit 0
echo "<$1>.. address does not accept blind carbon copies"
exit 100
To invoke this script, passing it the recipient address as an argument, you would need to put the following in your Mail Avenger rcpt
script:
bodytest reject_bcc `escape "$RECIPIENT"`
SEE ALSO avenger(1),
The Mail Avenger home page: <http://www.mailavenger.org/>.
BUGS
escape is designed for the Bourne shell, which is what Mail Avenger scripts use. escape might or might not work with other shells.
AUTHOR
David Mazieres
Mail Avenger 0.8.3 2012-04-05 escape(1)