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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving files that contain spaces... Post 302496885 by Sanglant on Tuesday 15th of February 2011 03:29:30 PM
Old 02-15-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Scrutinizer
Try:
Code:
mkdir "$DESTINATION"
chmod 7777 "$DESTINATION" # do you need to do this? this is very insecure..
for FILE in "$SOURCE"*.nsf ;do
  mv "$FILE" "$DESTINATION"
  chown tpcdap1h "$DESTINATION/${FILE##*/}"
done

Thanks so much. That fixed the problem. The destination directory needs to be open to everyone as all users need to go there to retrieve their restored file. Each file is password protected.
 

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ecaccess-file-mkdir

ECACCESS-FILE-MKDIR(1p) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   ECACCESS-FILE-MKDIR(1p)

NAME

       ecaccess-file-mkdir - Make a Directory on the ECaccess File System

SYNOPSIS

       ecaccess-file-mkdir -version|-help|-manual

       ecaccess-file-mkdir [-debug] ecaccess-file

DESCRIPTION

       Make the Directory ecaccess-file on the ECaccess File System, if it does not already exist.

       The ecaccess-file is in the form [domain:][/user-id/]path. Please read the "Shell commands -> File Management" section of the "ecaccess"
       guide for more information on the ECaccess File System.

ARGUMENTS

       ecaccess-file
	       The name of the ECaccess Directory to create.

OPTIONS

       -version
	       Display version number and exits.

       -help   Print a brief help message and exits.

       -manual Prints the manual page and exits.

       -debug  Display the SOAP messages exchanged.

EXAMPLES

       ecaccess-file-mkdir c1a:/c1a/tmp/systems/xyz/test-dir

       Make the test-dir Directory in the "/c1a/tmp/systems/xyz" directory on c1a.

SEE ALSO

       ecaccess-file-delete, ecaccess-file-get, ecaccess-file-mget, ecaccess-file-modtime, ecaccess-file-mput, ecaccess-file-rmdir, ecaccess-file-
       copy, ecaccess-file-dir, ecaccess-file-mdelete, ecaccess-file-chmod, ecaccess-file-move, ecaccess-file-put, ecaccess-file-size and
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