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Old 05-08-2011
Ignoring mv commands "cannot stat" error ?

So, my third thread here ^^ and still asking questions.

Thanks for you patience and help, I really appreciated it Smilie

I currently use a shell script to move folders of songs from one to another location on my harddrive.
I use something like this:

Code:
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"Vasco Rossi" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"Vasco Rossi"
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"Yui" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"Yui"
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"ZARD" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"ZARD"
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"8 Mile[Soundtrack][2002][MP3@320kbps]-FLAWL3SS" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"8 Mile[Soundtrack][2002][MP3@320kbps]-FLAWL3SS"
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"Berlin Calling OST" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"Berlin Calling OST"
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"Hangover OST" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"Hangover OST"
sudo mv /var/mobile/Media/"My Music"/"Inception OST - 2010 - (Hans Zimmer)" /var/mobile/Media/0tempmusic/"Inception OST - 2010 - (Hans Zimmer)"

The problem however is that I don't have all the folders in the place the script works with.
This naturally results in cannot stat errors.

What I would be interested in now is a way to have the script just ignore any "cannot stat error message".

I know that using a "if-else" would solve the job, but since the code up there is only a small portion of the real thing it simply would be alot of work and writing (or copy and paste if you want) to do.

I hope there is something the mv command has that will help me with that.

As always:

Thanks in advance you guys are awesome Smilie
 

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platform::shell(n)					       Tcl Bundled Packages						platform::shell(n)

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NAME
platform::shell - System identification support code and utilities SYNOPSIS
package require platform::shell ?1.1.4? platform::shell::generic shell platform::shell::identify shell platform::shell::platform shell _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION
The platform::shell package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell. This package allows the identification of the architecture of a specific Tcl shell different from the shell running the package. The only requirement is that the other shell (identified by its path), is actually executable on the current machine. While for most platform this means that the architecture of the interrogated shell is identical to the architecture of the running shell this is not generally true. A counter example are all platforms which have 32 and 64 bit variants and where a 64bit system is able to run 32bit code. For these running and interrogated shell may have different 32/64 bit settings and thus different identifiers. For applications like a code repository it is important to identify the architecture of the shell which will actually run the installed packages, versus the architecture of the shell running the repository software. COMMANDS
platform::shell::identify shell This command does the same identification as platform::identify, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell. platform::shell::generic shell This command does the same identification as platform::generic, for the specified Tcl shell, in contrast to the running shell. platform::shell::platform shell This command returns the contents of tcl_platform(platform) for the specified Tcl shell. KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture platform::shell 1.1.4 platform::shell(n)
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