Do you have write permission in the destination directory? Does it work if you change the directory to the location of the files?
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Thank you; that worked!
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One more question (and I thought I could figure it out on my own using your code but I can't ):
Let's say I want to copy - without renaming - the following 3 files: /ebsbeta/oradata/cntrl01.dbf, /ebsbeta/oradata/cntrl02.dbf, /ebsbeta/oradata/cntrl03.dbf to /overflow. How can I make a loop to copy any cntrl* files?
1. If I have a file-yyyymmdd.dat in a directory DATA1, then how do I move this file to directory DATA2 and the file name change to file-yyyymmdd.dat.currenttime
I can manual do this
$mv fileA-yyyymmdd.dat ./DATA2/fileA-yyyymmdd.dat.`date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S`
but how do I move all of the files in... (1 Reply)
Using a bash script, I need to find all files in a folder "except" the newest file. Then I need to insert the contents of one text file into all the files found. This text needs to be placed at the beginning of each file and needs a blank line between it and the current contents of the file. Then I... (5 Replies)
I am connecting to a remote server (Unix) and doing a ftp dowmload of files. The script (VB script) works fine except for not being able to move the downloaded files on the remote server to another folder.
I need to move all files with an .asc extesnion from folder "tovecellio_edi" to folder... (1 Reply)
Hello,
I'm new in the forum and in UNIX scripting, what I need is to write a simple batch script that renames or move the files back & forth from one directory to another, and then schedule the script to run on the server when the scheduled down time is, which is on Thursdays at 8pm and during... (5 Replies)
hi people;
i want to make a file/folder operation as follows.
- i have 41 folders in Windows and each of them have same-named files (~200 files each) inside.
- i want to stack these files together in a folder but Windows is asking to "overwrite" (as usual) since the file names are the same.... (2 Replies)
Hello there! I'm having a lot of trouble writing a script.
The script is supposed to:
1) Find all files with the name "Object.mtl" within each folder in the directory: /Users/username/Desktop/convert/Objects
2) Search and replace the string ".bmp" with ".tif" (without the quotations)
3)... (1 Reply)
I have a directory e2e_ms_xfer/cent01
this contains the multiple files some of which will be named below with unique date time stamps
e2e_ms_edd_nom_CCYYMMDD_HHMM.csv
What I want to do is in a loop
1) Get the oldest file
2) Rename
3) Move it up one level from e2e_ms_xfer/cent01 to... (1 Reply)
I'm using cygwin32 on Windows.
DN is an environment variable pointed at my download directory.
This command works to move the single most recent file in my download directory to my current directory:
mv "`perl -e '$p = $ARGV; opendir $h, $p or die "cannot opendir $p: $!"; @f = sort { -M $a... (2 Replies)
Hey guys,
I have wrote the following script to apply a module named "trinity" on my files. (it takes two input files and spit a trinity.fasta as output)
#!/bin/bash -l
#SBATCH -p node
#SBATCH -A <projectID>
#SBATCH -n 16
#SBATCH -t 7-00:00:00
#SBATCH --mem=128GB
#SBATCH --mail-type=ALL... (1 Reply)
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strclean
strclean(1M)strclean(1M)NAME
strclean - remove outdated STREAMS error log files
SYNOPSIS
logdir] age]
DESCRIPTION
cleans the STREAMS error logger directory of log files mm-dd) that contain error messages sent by the STREAMS log driver, strlog(7). If
the option is not used to specify another directory, removes error log files in the directory. If the option is not used to specify
another age, removes error log files that have not been modified in three days.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments:
Specifies a directory for the location of the
STREAMS error log files to be removed if this is not the default directory
Specifies a maximum age in days for the
STREAMS error log files if this not the default age of 3. The value of age must be an integer greater than or less than 3.
EXAMPLES
Remove day-old error log files from a directory called
FILES
One or more error log file or files on which operates. The mm-dd in the filename indicates the month and day of the messages con-
tained in the file.
NLS catalog for
SEE ALSO strerr(1M), strlog(7).
strclean(1M)