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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting moving files and creating a link to it Post 302364744 by rpraharaj84 on Friday 23rd of October 2009 07:39:50 PM
Old 10-23-2009
moving files and creating a link to it
Hi All,

I am in a tricky situation where I have to move my files to a different mount point and create a link in place of the file which will point to the moved location.

to explain you in details:-

say I have two mount points

/dir/mount1/
/dir/mount2/

I have my application files in /dir/mount1/application/

in /dir/mount1/application/ i have directories like

/dir/mount1/application/month
/dir/mount1/application/month/day
/dir/mount1/application/month/day/hour
/dir/mount1/application/month/day/hour/min1/a.txt
/dir/mount1/application/month/day/hour/min1/b.txt
/dir/mount1/application/month/day/hour/min1/c.txt

and

/dir/mount1/application/month/day/hour/min2/d.txt
/dir/mount1/application/month/day/hour/min2/e.txt

like wise....these files will be created in day-hour-min format directories...
now I need to move these .txt files to
/dir/mount2/application/ directory which will have exact directory structure which mount point 1 has.

and in place of original files in mount1 I will create softlinks which will be linked to the shifted files respectively....


any idea will be appreciated.... Smilie

---------- Post updated 10-24-09 at 12:39 AM ---------- Previous update was 10-23-09 at 11:18 PM ----------

any luck with any one?
 

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LEARN ABOUT XFREE86

dh_movefiles

DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME
       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages

SYNOPSIS
       dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
       build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
       up into subpackages.

       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.

FILES
       debian/package.files
	   Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
	   also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.

OPTIONS
       --sourcedir=dir
	   Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
	   contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
	   be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       file ...
	   Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
	   will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.

NOTES
       Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
       than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
       told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
       ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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