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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

05-28-2009

phcorn

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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.

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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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NAME

       installit - file/directory installation tool

SYNOPSIS

       installit [ -o owner ] [ -g group ] [ -O owner ] [ -G group ] [ -m mode ] [ -b backup ] [ -s ] [ -t ] source destination

DESCRIPTION

       Installit puts a copy of source into the specified destination.

       If  source is a period, then destination is taken to be the name of a directory that should be created.	Otherwise, source is taken to name
       an existing file and destination may be either a file or directory; it is interpreted according to the same rules as cp(1).

       Installit uses no special privileges to copy files from one place to another.

OPTIONS

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	      files are identical, then no copying is done, and only the ``-o'', ``-g'', ``-m'', and ``-s'' flags (see below) are  processed.	In
	      this case, the modification time on the destination will be updated using touch(1).

       -n     Do not update the modification time on the destination.

       -o -g -m
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