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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Unable to copy or move file Post 302320703 by phcorn on Thursday 28th of May 2009 03:46:52 PM
Old 05-28-2009
No luck.

I also find it curious that only way to see the file in a listing is to use long listing, “ll” or “ls –b”. It does not show up with “ls” or “ls” with numerous other switches I’ve tried.

Judging from the date the file would have been created prior to this server going live on production and it is a user who is not familiar with UNIX. It was probably dumped there by mistake and the user did several backspaces or something of that nature.

I wonder if the file even exists.

-----Post Update-----

I had tried “cat” and “more” to look at the file and neither worked. Received error message that no file found by that name. I then tried vi and it allowed us to open the file. Afterward we still could not copy or move the file but the remove command which we had not tried before worked. I still don’t know what the root cause was but the file has been deleted.

Thanks for you comments and assistance.

-----Post Update-----

I had tried “cat” and “more” to look at the file and neither worked. Received error message that no file found by that name. I then tried vi and it allowed us to open the file. Afterward we still could not copy or move the file but the remove command which we had not tried before worked. I still don't know what the root cause was but the file has been deleted.

Thanks for you comments and assistance.
phcorn
 

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gvfs-copy

gvfs-copy(1)							   User Commands						      gvfs-copy(1)

NAME

       gvfs-copy - copy a file from one VFS location to another

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-copy source-URI destination-URI

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-copy copies a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI	       Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       destination-URI	       Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Copying a File From a Web Server to a Local File

       example%
	       gvfs-copy http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-copy      Executable to copy a file from one VFS location to another

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-cat(1),  gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1), gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-move(1),
       gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2008 						      gvfs-copy(1)
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