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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Shell script which will check the target file and folder exists and copy it Post 302925439 by ashish_neekhra on Monday 17th of November 2014 08:44:20 AM
Old 11-17-2014
Hi Aia, thanks for the help.

Now i am trying to do :

1. Ask for a file name and check if its exists.
2. If file exists only then it will ask for the new target folder, after entering target folder name it will check if it exists, if doesn't exits it will create one with with the $location value.
3. It will copy that file in to it.


I have made below changes in to above script. Its working but i facing minor issue in it:

If i am trying to copy existing file in to non existing folder it's working fine and throwing below message

Code:
/etc/inittab copied to /OOO.

But if i am copying existing file in to existing folder i am not getting above message.


Code:
#!/bin/bash

read -p "Enter file name : " filename
echo "Please wait checking if $filename exists ..."

if [ -f "${filename}" ]
then
    echo "File $filename exist."
    read -p "Enter location to copy $filename : " location

    if [ -d "${location}" ]
    then
        echo "Target location found. Initiating file copy to $location."
        cp -v "$filename" "$location"
    else
        echo "$location not found ! Creating..."
        mkdir -p "$location"
        echo "$location folder created. Copying $filename to $location ..."
        cp -v "$filename" "$location"

        if [ $? -eq 0 ]
        then
                echo "$filename copied to $location."
        else
                echo "ERROR while copying $filename to $location. Please check write permission or disk space and try again !!!"
        fi

     fi

else
    echo "$filename not found."
fi


I will really appreciate if you point out needed changes.

Thanks,
Ashish
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnomevfs-copy

gnomevfs-copy(1)						   User Commands						  gnomevfs-copy(1)

NAME

       gnomevfs-copy - copy a file from one VFS location to another

SYNOPSIS

       gnomevfs-copy [-h] source-URI destination-URI

DESCRIPTION

       gnomevfs-copy copies a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -h	       Display usage and help information.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI      Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       destination-URI Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Copying a File From a Web Server to a Local File

       example% gnomevfs-copy http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnomevfs-copy  Executable to copy a file from one VFS location to another

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-vfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnomevfs-cat(1), gnomevfs-info(1), gnomevfs-ls(1), gnomevfs-mkdir(1)

NOTES

       Written by Stephen Browne, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10							    6 Sep 2004							  gnomevfs-copy(1)
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