The corrupt error messages in the "set -x" version of the post make me wonder if the input file is in MSDOS format (like from Windows notepad) and contains spurious carriage-return characters.
Please post a few lines from this command which is designed to make line terminators visible. A normal unix text file line will end with $ whereas a MSDOS file will end with \r$ .
The same could equally apply to the script itself.
Hi UNIX Gurus,
Could please help me out regarding following situation.
I am copying some files from one directory to other directotry using following command.
cp /var/tmp/*date*.gz /var/tmp/user/
Problem:
Once the copy has completed, I need to check whether all the files (including... (3 Replies)
Hi All
i want to write a script which could copy one file at a time from one directory to another directory.
Scenerio:
Let's say i have 100 file in a dirctory,so i want to copy one file at a time to another directory with a sleep statement in between that of 30 secs.
please help me... (1 Reply)
Here's what I have thus far:
cp -r /home/mydom/public_html/products/Widget/ /home/mydom/public_html/
This works fine but suppose the folder in public_html has a different name (Main_Widget). The cron above needs to copy the files within the folder (Widget) instead of the folder itself. How... (1 Reply)
Could someone please tell me if there is a command similar to head or tail that can be used on directories. I want to select a given number of files from a directory and copy them into another directory. But I found out I can't use head as it doesn't (or I don't know how yet!) work on directories.... (4 Replies)
Hi I have a few questions. I am trying to copy a file to a directory. I need to copy files that do not end in numbers, for example, into a directory. This is what I tried so far. cp filename directorytowhereIwannacopy but it says it can't copy to a directory. I need to copy many files into one... (2 Replies)
Hi all, wondering if someone would be able to help with a little query I have.
I currently have a script which copies everything in a specific directory to a number of other directories depending on a variable. The problem I have is the destination directories vary (in and incoming directories)... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am newbie to unix scripting, need a help in the doubt i have. It is " when files are copied to a directory using cp command, they are arranged by default according to the file name, is there anyway where the files that are copied be arranged with respect to their size, with using the sort... (5 Replies)
Hello,
Please can someone assist on a issue I am having.
I want to find specific files in the parent directory only that have been modified over the last 2 days and copy them to another location.
NOTE: The version of AIX I am using does not have MAXDEPTH.
I have currently written the... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
I need to copy files from one directory to another with the files to be renamed while copying if a file with the same name already exists in the target directory.
THanks,
Dev (2 Replies)