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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Move files to variable directory Post 302623743 by agama on Saturday 14th of April 2012 01:14:35 PM
Old 04-14-2012
From what you've posted I don't see anything odd. What O/S and shell are you using? What, if any, error messages are being written.

For what it is worth, when I create file and/or directory names using a command, I run the command once, and save the output in a variable using the contents for everything later. In your case, there shouldn't be any variable data in the output from date (as long as you didn't run command one at before midnight and the mv command after midnight), but it cannot hurt.

As an example:
Code:
targetd="/some/file/path/$(date "+%Y%m%d")"
if [[ ! -d $targetd ]]
then
   mkdir $targetd
fi
mv /source/path/*.jpg $targetd/

 

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gri_merge - merge multiple Gri output files into a single PostScript file. USAGE (style 1): gri_merge [OPTIONS] CxR a.ps b.ps ... > merged_file.ps Merges the files onto one page, in 'C' columns and 'R' rows. The CxR files are given in the order of words on a page. The page is pre- sumed to be 8.5x11in in size, as are all the input files, and the input files are sized to fit, and kept in natural scale. USAGE (style 2): gri_merge [OPTIONS] xcm ycm enlarge a.ps [b.ps ...] > merged_file.ps Where `enlarge' is a scale factor applied after offsetting `xcm' to the right and `ycm' upward. EXAMPLE (style 2): The following gri_merge 2 12 .5 a.ps 12 12 .5 b.ps 2 2 .5 c.ps 12 2 .5 d.ps > all.ps produces 4 panels from gri plots done using margins and sizes as specified in the following lines in a gri commandfile set x margin 2 set x size 15 set y margin 2 set y size 15 The OPTIONS, available if your 'perl' has 'getopts' library, are: -u graylevel -- set graylevel for underlay beneath panels, by default 0.75. Values range from 0 (black) to 1 (white), although a value of precisely 1 means do NOT draw underlay. -b graylevel -- Set value for background under individual panels, again 0 for black to 1 for white, with 1 meaning no drawing. -h -- Print this help message and quit. SEE ALSO
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