I have a little copy script,
This just accepts a file with a list of file names, source directory, and destination directory. This works fine for simple applications, but I would like to use a specific column in a multi column file as the file list.
and pass the column header as in argument,
I got this script:
print -n "Enter file name: "
read name
....
.....
.....
etc
but at the prmpt, when I press enter (without typin a word), comes up with sum error message, is there away of getting it not to print that message?? (8 Replies)
I am trying to figure out how to copy a file that changes daily to a new directory with a different name each day. Example : webfile created today copy webfile to /hold/webfile.1
tommorrow copy webfile /hold/webfile.2
Is there a way to do this? I can't seem to figure this out.
This needs to... (2 Replies)
Hi Frineds,
Through my DTS process I am generating one file at one directory like,
/sqlsrvr_demo/dts/put/transaction_fact.csv
now I want to copy this files(only when the files size is greater than 0 kb) to some other directory like
/sqlsrvr_demo/dts/get/transaction_fact.csv
Can... (2 Replies)
Hi Gang, I am an old unix user and just recently returned in the flavor of a Mac. I have tons of pictures in the .orf format and would like to write a script to:
Search the Hard drives for that file type
Then, depending on date, copy it to a specific folder
If there is an exact... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
My first post on the Forums! I've just whipped up a quick script to slightly automate a log file retrieval process for work and to be completely honest my BASH scirpting knownledge is extremely limited as is my understanding of a lot of linux commands.
Basically the scripts purpose... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I am currently learning UNIX scripting and have written a simple copy program.
However, upon execution, it returns an error despite debugging correctly.
Can anyone assist in explaining this?
Attached screenshots illustrating a test execution.
Many thanks. (13 Replies)
Hi Experts
Hi I'm trying run the below code, unfortunately it throwing error.
Error Message: tail:cannot open ‘ H:\Test_Folder\' No such file or directory
tail: invalid option -3
cp ` ls -tr *REPORT*.txt |tail -3` H:\Test_Folder\
to give you more insight of my requirement:
I am trying... (3 Replies)
Hello, I am still pretty new at writing shell scripts and may have bitten off more than I can chew. I am trying to write a script that figures out if a file exists (a known name) in directory a, then copy it to my selected destination, otherwise, look in directory b and check there. If it is in... (14 Replies)
Hello All,
This is my first post to unix.com.
I have requirement to copy multiple *.dmp files from one server to other server.
I have that other server NFS filesystem mapped to source server.
Dump files are so huge almost 20TB. There are around 15-20 files each of 1.1TB.
I want to copy these... (6 Replies)
I'm trying to copy script output and use it in this same script as a variable, and call the variable when script is compiled.
The script is below.
#!/bin/bash
output=$(script)
while read line; do
if ];
then
grep "$line" logfile.txt
# Create text file
echo "From: IT ... (4 Replies)