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# 1  
Old 03-29-2011
Home dir renaming
It is required to rename the home dir of some users specifed in the file ids.csv. But the code is not working as expected.

ids.csv have content in the format
id1,name,id2

It displays the expected message , still it is unable to rename the dirs
Find the code below:
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
CSV_FILE="/home/pde/docs/unix_xid/ids.csv";
#######  Read the csv file for unixid and xid ######
while IFS=, read UNIX_ID NAME NEW_ID
do
cd ~$UNIX_ID 2>>log_homedir_non_existent
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ;
then
 pwd
 cd .. 2>>log_homedir_cdparent_failed
 if [ $? -eq 0 ] ;
 then
  HOME_DIR_LOCATION=`pwd`
  echo $HOME_DIR_LOCATION
  mv $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID 2>>log_homedir_rename_failed
 
  if [ $? -eq 0 ] ;
  then
   echo "$UNIX_ID to $NEW_ID.................Done"
   echo "$UNIX_ID to $NEW_ID.................Done" >>log_homedir_rename_success
  else
   echo "$UNIX_ID to $NEW_ID.................Failed"
  fi
 else
  echo "Unable to cd parent $UNIX_ID"
 fi
else
 echo " $UNIX_ID directory does not exists........"
fi
done < $CSV_FILE

when run it displays the ID1 to ID2.................Done
but actual renaming is not done.
# 2  
Old 03-29-2011
1) what do you have in log_homedir_rename_failed of the corresponding ID ?

2) for your info :

Code:
echo "$UNIX_ID to $NEW_ID.................Done"
echo "$UNIX_ID to $NEW_ID.................Done" >>log_homedir_rename_success

shoud be replaced with
Code:
echo "$UNIX_ID to $NEW_ID.................Done" | tee -a log_homedir_rename_success

try change
Code:
mv $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID 2>>log_homedir_rename_failed


with (run it in a test environment first so that you can check it behaves as you expect)
Code:
mv $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID/* $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID/.??* $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID 2>>log_homedir_rename_failed

or
Code:
cp -pr $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID/* $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID/

and (after checking that nothing is missing)
Code:
rm -rf $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID

You could also look for some other find/cpio/rsync command to perform such kind of copy
Last edited by ctsgnb; 03-29-2011 at 11:04 AM..
# 3  
Old 03-29-2011
home dir renaming
Thanks for removing the duplicacy

There is nothing in the file log_homedir_rename_failed.

I don't think there is any problem with the code , but still unable to get expected result
# 4  
Old 03-29-2011
If you don't get the expected result, it means the code has a problem (maybe not in syntax, but still!)
Smilie

---------- Post updated at 04:12 PM ---------- Previous update was at 04:09 PM ----------

1) Use double quoting

2) For troubleshooting maybe you can echo the used values before doing the move :
Code:
echo "$HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID"
mv "$HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID" "$HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID"

instead of
Code:
echo $HOME_DIR_LOCATION
mv $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$UNIX_ID $HOME_DIR_LOCATION/$NEW_ID

then give a test run and see if the output gives some clue
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