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# 1  
Old 06-27-2012
Find & move script
Hi all

I wrote a little script that search for a file and moves it, its like this:

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

today=`date +"%d_%m_%y"`

if [ -f $1 ];

 then
 mkdir -p /tmp/bigfiles/$today
 mv $1 /tmp/bigfiles/$today/
 echo "moving big file from /home/appcwec " | mailx -s "bigfile" ffff@yyy.com


else

echo "big file in /home/appcwec does not exist" | mailx -s "bigfile" ffff@yyy.com

fi

It does work normaly,

But if I put in the crontab like this:

Code:
0 17 * * * /home/appcwec/ksh check_file.ksh 1.tmp

It does not work.

Can you help?

FR
# 2  
Old 06-27-2012
provide the absolute path of 1.tmp

Code:
0 17 * * * /home/appcwec/ksh check_file.ksh /absolute/path/of/1.tmp

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# 3  
Old 06-27-2012
Try with this .. Assign shell to execute and provide full path of 1.tmp ..
Code:
0 17 * * * ksh /home/appcwec/ksh check_file.ksh /full/path/of/1.tmp

# 4  
Old 06-27-2012
find & move script
Ok, did work fine, out of crontab, but what happens if test argument or the filename changes from :

Code:
t.tmp

to
Code:
2.tmp

# 5  
Old 06-27-2012
If your file name happens to change frequently then you have re-write the code to take the argument from a seperate static file.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

today=`date +"%d_%m_%y"`

while read FILE
do
if [ -f $FILE ];

 then
 mkdir -p /tmp/bigfiles/$today
 mv $FILE /tmp/bigfiles/$today/
 echo "moving big file from /home/appcwec " | mailx -s "bigfile" ffff@yyy.com


else

echo "big file in /home/appcwec does not exist" | mailx -s "bigfile" ffff@yyy.com

fi
done < "/your/static/file"

Now if your filename to be moved changes, then you have to just update the name in your static file. In this static file you can also include multiple filenames on seperate lines.
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