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Operating Systems Linux Possible Cause of Files Not Being Moved? Post 302638261 by rymnd_12345 on Thursday 10th of May 2012 04:59:04 AM

05-10-2012

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Possible Cause of Files Not Being Moved?

Hi ULF,

Good day! I'm working on a LINUX Suse server and I have an entry in CRON which looks like this below:

Code:

0 5 * * * /usr/bin/find /opt/nsfw/var/partition-all/ -name "RCV_SASN*" -exec mv '{}' /opt/nsfw/var/rcv-archive/ \;

This tool runs everyday at 5am and it will just move the files from one sub-dir to another. I still can't figure out, why sometimes we're experiencing some problems in a way that some of the files are not being moved and some are successful. With the same naming convention being (-name RCV-SASN*), still some are left and worse is, some of the files are already dated past few (2-5) days, given that it's running everyday.

I checked the sub-dir "rcv-archive" and observed that some of the latest dated files were successfully moved while some are not.

I thought of some possible reasons like:

1. Does the "mv" command has a limit, like even it will run the tool it will only move certain counts of files?
2. Is it safe to say that I must put "&" at the end of the line, for it not to be interrupted if someone worked during that time, then let's say for example when the CRON runs in background at 5am (then since the files to be moved have a huge count, therefore it will take quite slow), the user might do some "CTRL+C" action without knowing that the command has been ran. So as if he interacts or cancels the script in working in background. Is it?

Thanks and God bless!

BR,
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mvdir(1M)																 mvdir(1M)

NAME

       mvdir - move a directory

SYNOPSIS

       dir newdir

DESCRIPTION

       moves one directory tree into another existing directory (within the same file system), or renames a directory without moving it.

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