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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script for moving series of sub folders Post 302911534 by vipertech on Friday 1st of August 2014 09:27:30 AM
Old 08-01-2014
Chubler_XL,

Thank you for the suggestion! That worked great other than one small issue....it takes the archive folder itself and all of its contents and places them under the newarchive folder.

IE:
before the move
/names/company1/archive/<a bunch of subfolders>
/names/company1/newarchive/

after the move
/names/company1/archive/
/names/company1/newarchive/archive/<a bunch of subfolders>

I need it to take the contents of the archive folder and move them to the newarchive folder.

IE:
before the move
/names/company1/archive/<a bunch of subfolders>
/names/company1/newarchive/

after the move
/names/company1/archive
/names/company1/newarchive/<a bunch of subfolders>

Thank you!

---------- Post updated at 09:27 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:12 AM ----------

BTW, I fixed the issue I pointed out by making these simple changes:

Code:
#!/bin/bash
for arch in */archive/*
do
   newarch="${arch%archive/*}archivenew"
   if [ -d "$newarch" ]
   then
      rsync -a --remove-source-files "$arch" "$newarch"
      find "$arch" -mindepth 0 -type d -delete
   fi
done

Last edited by vipertech; 08-01-2014 at 09:29 AM..
 

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elf_getarhdr

elf_getarhdr(3E)														  elf_getarhdr(3E)

NAME

       elf_getarhdr - retrieve archive member header

SYNOPSIS

       [flag... ] file...  [library] ...

DESCRIPTION

       returns a pointer to an archive member header, if one is available for the ELF descriptor elf.  Otherwise, no archive member header exists,
       an error occurred, or elf was null; then returns a null value.  The header includes the following members.

		       char	       *ar_name;
		       time_t	       ar_date;
		       long	       ar_uid;
		       long	       ar_gid;
		       unsigned long   ar_mode;
		       off_t	       ar_size;
		       char	       *ar_rawname;

       An archive member name, available through is a null-terminated string, with the format control characters  removed.   The  member  holds  a
       null-terminated	string	that represents the original name bytes in the file, including the terminating slash and trailing blanks as speci-
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SEE ALSO

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