Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi

I have the following script to copy files from one directory to another:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
touch -mt 201304240000 /var/tmp/ref1
touch -mt 201305152359 /var/tmp/ref2
find /moneta_collected02/in_psl -type f \( -newer /var/tmp/ref1 -a ! -newer /var/tmp/ref2 \) > file_lst
cp -pr $(< file_lst) /moneta_collected02/in_psl1/

but when I run I have the following error:

Code:

root@moneta # ./transf
find: stat() error /moneta_collected02/in_psl/PSLCCN4-130106-0731-90574.gz: No such file or directory
./transf: syntax error at line 5: `(' unexpected

please can you help?

are you sure below syntax is right?

Code:

 
cp -pr $(< file_lst)

I just want to copy files and preserve the permissions

You are getting error from find command

find works by calling either ftw() or nftw() - these functions traverse a file tree, and return the results from a stat() call for every file found.

stat is a system call that returns metadata about a file - size, last modification date, permissions, etc. I/O errors occur when the filesystem metadata has a problem or the disk(s) has bad sectors, etc.

Is there any issues with PSLCCN4-130106-0731-90574.gz file?

that file do not exist

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Please !

What could be wrong in that?

I am not 100% certain.. Was that file removed recently? If yes it might happen that someone is still using that?

you could be right, because the application/database picks up files in there and moves it somewhere else. I may have to stop that stream