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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Schedule a move job, from one location to another Post 302557337 by abkush on Wednesday 21st of September 2011 12:32:54 AM
Old 09-21-2011
Schedule a move job, from one location to another

There are two similar directory structures existing, e.g. old/ and new/, where
old/d1/d2/d4/, old/d1/d2/d5/, old/d1/d3/d6/ and old/d1/d3/d7 contains some files and now I want to move those files from each folder to new locations new/d1/d2/d4/, new/d1/d2/d5/, new/d1/d3/d6/ and new/d1/d3/d6/.

The files should be moved in batches, and in scheduled manner, i.e. 5 files from each directory to another one in every 10 minutes.

Kindly suggest the way forward, one can create and use additional files.

My approach: I created a file (say f1) containing all the filenames in old directory (by using find) and then a copy of f1, where I replaced "old/" by "new/" to get new paths for filenames, and tried to execute the move command by reading one by one from the two files, but I am not able to acheive how to manage 5 files from each directory].

Thanks.

Last edited by abkush; 09-21-2011 at 01:33 AM.. Reason: typos
 

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proto(4)						     Kernel Interfaces Manual							  proto(4)

NAME
proto - prototype job file for at SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
When a job is submitted to or the job is constructed as a POSIX shell script (see at(1)). The job file is created in as follows: o creates a header describing the job as an job or a job. jobs submitted to all queues other than queue are listed as jobs. The header is: for an job, or for a job. o A set of POSIX shell commands is added to make the environment (see environ(5)) for the job the same as the current environment. o then copies text from the prototype file to the job file, except for special variables that are replaced by other text: Replaced by the current working directory. Replaced by the current file size limit (see ulimit(2)). Replaced by the current umask (see umask(2)). Replaced by the time at which the job should be run, expressed as seconds since January 1, 1970, 00:00 Coordinated Universal Time, preceded by a colon. Replaced by text read by from the standard input (that is, the commands provided to to be run in the job). o When a job is submitted to queue queue, uses the file as the prototype file if it exists. Otherwise, it uses the file EXAMPLES
The following file creates commands to change the current directory, file size limit, and umask in the job to their respective values as they existed when was originally run. These commands are inserted before the commands in the job: SEE ALSO
at(1), queuedefs(4). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
proto(4)
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