Shell Programming and Scripting

Ok, this is the first script I've ever attempted to write so go easy on me. I'm just trying to simple copy a tar.gz file from the directory the script is located to /usr/local/filename.tar.gz The script is run as root so it shouldn't be a permissions issue. (at least to my knowledge)
This is what it looks like

Code:

#!/bin/bash
HADOOP="hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz"

cp $HADOOP /usr/local/$HADOOP -v
tar xzf /usr/local/$HADOOP
mv /usr/local/$HADOOP hadoop
chown -R hduser:hadoop hadoop

What happens is the following: $hadoop is never copied to the /usr/local directory and then after that the tar xzf is run in the current directory and it's extracted in the current directory. It is like bash is going through my script and just ignoring the text "/usr/local" I've tried all sorts of reading and quotation mixes. I generally hesitate to post questions in a forum because I like to learn it myself and most problems somebody has already posted, but this one truly has me stumped. I also added -v to the end of it to see whats happening. When I run the -v in the script the output is this
"`hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz' -> `/usr/local/hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz'"
(but it never copies the file)
When I run the -v from command prompt I get the same thing :
"`hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz' -> `/usr/local/hadoop-1.0.3.tar.gz'" only it does copy the file. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Joe

I think the script is copying the gz file to /usr/local and this command: mv /usr/local/$HADOOP hadoop is moving it back to the local directory (either under a hadoop sub-directory, if one exists, or to the file hadoop otherwise).

oh my gosh im such a dummy. I thought i removed that line earlier. didn't even notice it. Thanks so much Chubler ! wow i feel so stupid