Hi,
I would like to write a shell script that moves files from one folder to another without retrieving the error 'can not find file or folder' when the folder is empty.
Any ideas,
Thx in advance,
Steven. (8 Replies)
Hello folk,
I want to move some *.jpg and *.JPG to some folder but i want move from current path not from subdirectories, wants to move 200 days old file.
it will go in /dir/aa/target/*.jpg|*.JPG but not go inside /dir/aa/target/other-directories,
Plese help (2 Replies)
Hi Forum.
When I run the following find command, I get the desired results:
find . \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' \) -type f -ls
I want for my script to dynamically calculate and assign a variable var1 to contain all the files that I want to search instead of hard-coding.
... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I have a sub directory with a number of files and folders. What i want is a subdirectory with just folders and not files for cleanliness sake. So I want to move the files into the new folder but keep the folders in the same place. Move all files (but not folders) to new folder.
I am... (4 Replies)
There are around 13 files in folder1.I need to move these files to another folder folder2,one file at a time, after checking whether a file exists in another folder folder3.
If a file exists in folder3, we should not move files from folder1 to folder2.
If there are no files in folder3, we need... (1 Reply)
I want to move all the files inside a directory to another directory which is inside that directory. Please help.
Note: I want to move only the files. Note the folders. Thanks in advance. (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to move files like *.txt to another filesystem on the same server only when the disk usage reaches 80% or more. But need to keep the latest 5 files. After that delete from the original. How to proceed?
Please help
Gav... (5 Replies)
I want to move a folder with spaces from one folder to another.
I have two folders like this,
1).RT_032-222 -4444-01/ 2). RT_032-555 -7777-01/
I want to move files from 2 to 1 through shell script.Here I want to assign this like a user defined variable like as Source branch... (2 Replies)
Hi Team,
I am new to shell script and there is a requirement where files should be moved from Subfolder to parent folder.
Eg:
parent folder --> /Interface/data/test/IN
Sub folder -->/Interface/data/test/IN/Invoice20180607233338
Subfolder will be always with timestamp... (6 Replies)
Hello,
First time poster. I am looking for a way to script or program the process of moving files from one folder to another, automatically, based on the count of files in the destination folder.
I was thinking a shell script would work, but am open to the suggestions of the experts... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: comtech
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)