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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Random File Selection and Moving Post 302544978 by stak1993 on Friday 5th of August 2011 03:26:39 PM
Old 08-05-2011
Pludi,

Thanks for the reply. I tried to send you a PM explaining the situation. Unfortunately I could not.

So:
Are you using PuTTY to connect to that machine?
No, i can not connect to that machine from my unclassified computer. I am doing the pen and paper drill.

Am I right in assuming that you called this script without parameters?
yes, just ./

And that you wrote it using Notepad?
Yes, i wrote it in notepad on the unclass machine and brought it over to the other machine.

How are you transferring the file?
They are for this conversation just in the file location on the UNIX machine.

Thank you for your continued support. When i get back in I will try the code you mentioned. Thanks

Scott
 

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SHTOOL-MOVE.TMP(1)					      GNU Portable Shell Tool						SHTOOL-MOVE.TMP(1)

NAME
shtool-move - GNU shtool enhanced mv(1) replacement SYNOPSIS
shtool move [-v|--verbose] [-t|--trace] [-e|--expand] [-p|--preserve] src-file dst-file DESCRIPTION
This is a mv(1) style command enhanced with the ability to rename multiple files in a single operation and the ability to detect and not touch existing equal destinations files, thus preserving timestamps. OPTIONS
The following command line options are available. -v, --verbose Display some processing information. -t, --trace Enable the output of the essential shell commands which are executed. -e, --expand Expand asterisk in src to be used as ""%"n" (where n is 1,2,...) in dst-file. This is useful for renaming multiple files at once. -p, --preserve Detect src-file and dst-file having equal content and not touch existing destination files, thus perserving timestamps. This is useful for applications that monitor timestamps, i.e. suppress make(1L) repeating actions for unchanged files. EXAMPLE
# shell script shtool move -v -e '*.txt' %1.asc # Makefile scanner.c: scanner.l lex scanner.l shtool move -t -p lex.yy.c scanner.c HISTORY
The GNU shtool move command was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool. SEE ALSO
shtool(1), mv(1), make(1). 18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-MOVE.TMP(1)
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