Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I am getting the below error can anyone please help with this?

Code:

 
cp ${AI_SERIAL}/file_name ${AI_SERIAL_ARCH}/${ODATE}_file_name
cp: cannot stat `$AI_SERIAL/FILE_NAME': No such file or directory
+ gzip:$AI_SERIAL_ARCH./$ODATE_FILE_NAME
gzip:$AI_SERIAL_ARCH./$ODATE_FILE_NAME: No such file or directory

Apologies I cant give directory name and file names as we cant disclose it.I am just copying the file from AI_SERIAL to AI_SERIAL_ARCH DIRECTORY and then zipping that file.File in Ai_serial directory is as below : eg

abc.dat and I have copied in ai_serial_arch directory as 20131011_abc.dat

Thanks.Please help.

It looks like, your paths are not correct.

You could at least give us a consistent command lines and diagnostic messages.

Showing us command lines and diagnostics that don't match tells us that you're wasting our time and don't really want our help. Not showing us representative samples of your code and data tells us that you're wasting our time and don't really want our help.

I'll give you a free pass once and make some wild guesses at what might be wrong. First, cp will never give you a diagnostic message starting with gzip:. Second, neither cp nor gzip will translate a file's name presented in lowercase on the command line to uppercase in diagnostic messages.

In theory, it is possible that the command line:

Code:

cp ${AI_SERIAL}/file_name ${AI_SERIAL_ARCH}/${ODATE}_file_name

could produce the diagnostic:

Code:

cp: cannot stat `$AI_SERIAL/file_name': No such file or directory

if you defined the variable AI_SERIAL using something like:

Code:

AI_SERIAL='$AI_SERIAL'

, but it seems more likely that your cp command is using quotes that you haven't shown us and you're using the wrong quotes. By any chance, did your real cp command look more like:

Code:

cp '${AI_SERIAL}/FILE_NAME' '${AI_SERIAL_ARCH}/${ODATE}_FILE_NAME'

with single quotes surrounding the pathnames? If so, change the single quotes to double quotes (in your cp command AND in your gzip command) and you might get something closer to what you wanted.

If you want our help in the future, please be aware that at the very least you need to show us EXACT replicas of the commands you're running (you can change the names if you want; but any uses of quotes must be shown exactly as they appear in your script). If you're going to give us replicas of your commands, please be sure that any transformations you make to your commands are also be made to the diagnostic messages your actual command produces.