Shell Programming and Scripting

Problem is still happening :/
I wish hitting it with a bigger stick would work!

With set -x and "echo" you can see very easy what's wrong with your script.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
set -x
d="/home/scadmin/cpbackup/daily"
db="$d/*.tar.gz"

for f in $db
do
        f=$(basename $f)
        user=${f%%.*}
        o=`grep "^$user:" /etc/trueuserowners`
        owner=${o#* }
        if [ ! -d "$d/$owner" ]; then
                echo mkdir $d/$owner/
        fi
       echo mv -f $f $d/$owner/
done

You don't need at all all this "_". You don't export these variables, so they can't interfere with anything. The shell is noisy enough to add more.

Well the script ran wrong again last night regardless of the changes. Removing the _ also broke the mv statement as $_f and $f were two different values. What I can see is that the if statement checks for the directory without a trailing slash whilst the mkdir statement runs with a trailing slash. I've added the trailing slash to see if that makes a different.

Its annoying that the script works fine when you run it from the console but screws up from cron overnight.

This is still being a pig. It works perfectly fine when run from the command line. With set -x on I get the output emailed over and when run from cron it does the check to see if the directory exists and then goes right ahead and creates the directory regardless.

Next try, removing the double quotes from the if statement..