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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting crontab; copy most recent *.mpg file from local machine to smb storage device Post 302319996 by julezsht on Tuesday 26th of May 2009 07:57:36 PM
Old 05-26-2009
Some progress, not a lot but a little...
Thanks for all your help methyl, diogooute

I've made a little progress, I'm comfortable with calling scripts I create using CRONTAB. I haven't used your touch method, I've been slightly free-wheeling... Whilst the below method isn't the most inspired, it will also mean that I won't backup any sections of video that failed to encode for the full 58minutes. This is a bonus if I specify that CRONTAB run an amended flavour of this script in the 2minute downtime - this is actually beneficial as clips <58minutes would be of little use.

I've gone for using the -mmin command within find which should allow me to find files modofied with X minutes of the current time. Whilst this is not bomb-proof, I know that the other contents of the source folder won't be amended...

I'm finding that the results of my find query return the folder location ./ and therefore experimented with removing this using the sed command and failed, despite trawling through forum after forum which detail that escaping the / should be easy, I can't seem to do this.

Code:
find -name \*.mpg -mmin -3 > newest_mpg.tmp
    #sed 's ..$  ' newest_mpg.tmp > newest_mpg.tmp
    newestmpg=$(cat newest_mpg.tmp)
    echo $newestmpg
    smbclient \\\\10.10.10.3\\public -u smb_user -p smb_pass -c "; prompt; put $newestmpg; exit"

Criticism welcome, I'd appreciate any pointers -

Thanks again.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

kep_reload

KEP_RELOAD(1)						      General Commands Manual						     KEP_RELOAD(1)

NAME

       kep_reload - Update Predict's Keplerian elements

SYNOPSIS

	kep_reload

DESCRIPTION

       KEP_RELOAD is a simple utility that forces an immediate reload of PREDICT's Keplerian database through a socket connection while PREDICT is
       running in server mode.	It is especially useful in environments where PREDICT runs continuously, and periodic  Keplerian  element  updates
       are made outside of PREDICT, such as through scripts run through a crontab.

       The  "kepupdate"  script  found	in this directory is an example of a Keplerian element update script that can be run on an automated basis
       through a crontab.  It is designed to be placed in your home directory under a subdirectory  called  "cronjobs".   It  downloads  Keplerian
       orbital	data  from  www.celestrak.com  using  the  HTTP  protocol.   (The  "wget" utility, available from the Free Software Foundation, is
       required, and is included in many Linux distrubutions.)

       Type crontab -e to edit your crontab.  Simply add the following entry:

	       0 8 * * * kepupdate

       and your orbital database will update each morning at 8:00 AM (provided you have a network connection at that time).

       See the crontab man page for more information on editing your crontab.

AUTHOR

       This man page was written by A. Maitland Bottoms, AA4HS, for Debian GNU/Linux.

								  31 August 2003						     KEP_RELOAD(1)
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