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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting File globbing order Post 303028629 by poova on Friday 11th of January 2019 01:26:43 PM
Old 01-11-2019
File globbing order
Hi ,
I'm facing a different behaviour with one of my shell script for last few days. It was working good before that.
here is my code for the script FileRemove.sh
Code:
#get the file name#
file1=$1
file2=$2
rm $file1 # delete the old file
mv $file2 <target path> #move the new file to the target path

execution syntax for FileRemove.sh in my program: sh FileRemove.sh XYZ*.txt

For all my past days first argument passed as my old file which was created one or few days before in the path and second argument passed as a new file created in the path.

For example if I have 2 files as below

XYX20181225.txt
XYZ20181226.txt

then $1 passed as XYX20181225.txt and $2 passed as XYZ20181226.txt for the input argument XYZ*.txt.

But nowadays $2 getting passed as old file and $1 getting passed as new file. Because of this I'm deleting my new file in script instead of old file.

I know this is not the good way of scripting to delete the old file but can anyone advise why it worked all these months fine and suddenly for last one week it is creating issue for me.
 

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xclip-copyfile

XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)					      General Commands Manual						 XCLIP-COPYFILE(1)

NAME

       xclip-copyfile, xclip-cutfile, xclip-pastefile - copy and move files via the X clipboard

SYNOPSIS

       xclip-copyfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-cutfile [-p] FILES...

       xclip-pastefile

DESCRIPTION

       xclip-copyfile copies files into the X clipboard, recursing into directories.

       xclip-cutfile copies the files, but also deletes them afterwards.

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EXAMPLES

       Copying a file to a remote host

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       A file created on maggie.lkpg.cendio.se

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