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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting copying random Jpg files to different folder Post 302570126 by raamkum on Wednesday 2nd of November 2011 12:34:20 PM
Old 11-02-2011
Hey!

Thanks for the reply!

I figured out the way to get the random file working... with the code that could list out the files. And everything works just fine when I manually run the script with.

prompt> chmod +x move.sh
prompt> ./move.sh

I files are randomily selected, renamed and moved to the location.

But I have another issue:

When I do the same using cronjob for the shell script.

prompt> crontab -e

and type the below:

49 11 * * 3 /bin/chmod +x /kunden/homepages/mylocation/mylocation/htdocs/release/sites/default/files/randompics/move.sh
50 11 * * 3 /bin/bash /kunden/homepages/mylocation/mylocation/htdocs/release/sites/default/files/randompics/move.sh

I couldn't get the file moved but the existing file got deleted as per the code and also sent me an email too...but it didn't do the main job moving random file to given location.

Do you know what could be wrong?

Thanks!
 

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DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME
dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages SYNOPSIS
dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...] DESCRIPTION
dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that up into subpackages. Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles. FILES
debian/package.files Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved. OPTIONS
--sourcedir=dir Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'. -Xitem, --exclude=item Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed. file ... Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in. NOTES
Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later. SEE ALSO
debhelper(7) This program is a part of debhelper. AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_MOVEFILES(1)
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