Shell Programming and Scripting

The following files has been moved from /home/sofia/ to /home/sofia/test

1. alpha.300
2. beta.300

#!/usr/bin/env bash
FROM_DIR='/home/zaree'
TO_DIR='/home/zaree/test'

FILE_FOUND=0

BODY=$(printf "$(date)\n\n")
BODY+=$(printf "The following files have been moved from\n")
BODY+=$(printf "%s\nto\n%s\n\n" "$FROM_DIR" "$TO_DIR")

for FILE in /home/zaree/*.beta; do
                FILE_FOUND=1
        mv $FILE /home/zaree/test
        BODY+=$(printf "%s moved\n" "$FILE");
done

{
if (( $FILE_FOUND==1 )); then
        printf  "$BODY"
fi
} | mailx -s "Dev-Script" zaree@xyz.com

zaree/*.beta

zaree./*.300

The following files has been moved from /home/zaree to /home/zaree/test
1. a.beta
2. b.beta

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#using "shopt -s nullglob" so that an empty directory won't give you a literal '*'
shopt -s nullglob #to make `("$src_dir"*.271)` works
src_dir="/home/zaree/ " 
dest_dir="/home/zaree/test/"
#manually remove both /tmp/error.txt and /tmp/moved.log which will append from time to time.
err_f="/tmp/error.txt"
mv_f="/tmp/moved.log" #record moved file in case network down
email="zaree@xyz.com"
export replyto="<noreply@xyz.com>"
touch "$err_f" #bcoz we use >> apppend
touch "$mv_f" #bcoz we use tee -a append

#mailx only one if mv encounter error, by using break to break early instead of exit 1
#because we still want to know which file has been moved before error occur.
if [ ! -d "$src_dir" ]; then echo|mailx -s "Error: directory $src_dir not exist" "$email" 2>>"$err_f"; exit 1; fi
if [ ! -d "$dest_dir" ]; then echo|mailx -s "Error: directory $dest_dir not exist" "$email" 2>>"$err_f"; exit 1; fi
{
f=("$src_dir"*.beta)
for ((i=0; i < ${#f[@]}; i+=1)); do
        mv -f "${f[i]}" "$dest_dir"  2>>"$err_f"; #-f do not prompt
#Advantage of cmd; if [ $? -eq 0 ] compare to implicitly if cmd is you can easily modify it
#to some other command which might require different return code.
        if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
                if [ "$i" -eq 0 ]; then echo "$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")"; echo "The following files has been moved from $src_dir to $dest_dir"; echo; fi
                echo "$((i+1))." "$(basename "${f[i]}")" ; echo;
        else
                 echo| mailx -s "Error:  $(<"$err_f")" "$email" 2>>"$err_f"; break
        fi
done

#mailx -E to avoid empty body, so it wouldn't sent if no file moved
} | tee -a "$mv_f" | mailx -E -s "File move Script" "$email" 2>>"$err_f"

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
#	Variables
#
	shopt -s nullglob #to make `("$src_dir"*.271)` works
	# Dirs
	src_dir="/home/zaree/ " 
	dest_dir="/home/zaree/test/"
	# Files
	err_f="/tmp/error.txt"
	mv_f="/tmp/moved.log" #record moved file in case network down
	# email
	email="zaree@xyz.com"
	replyto="<noreply@xyz.com>"
	BODY=""
	date_string="$(date +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"
	# bools
	dont_move=false
#
#	Preparations
#
	touch "$err_f" "$mv_f"
	if [ ! -d "$src_dir" ] || [ ! -d "$dest_dir" ]
	then	BODY="Error: One or both directory $src_dir/$dest_dir does not exist"
		echo "$BODY" | tee -a "$err_f" 
		dont_move=true
		BODY+"\n"
		#exit 1
	fi
#
#	Get files
#
	if ! $dont_move
	then	files_array=("$src_dir"*.beta)
		for thisFile in "${files_array[@]}"
		do
			mv -f "thisFile" "$dest_dir" 2>>"$err_f"
			if [ 0 -eq $? ]
			then	msg="Successfully moved"
			else	msg="Failed to move"
			fi
			msg="$msg $thisFile"
			echo "$msg" | tee -f $mv_f
			BODY+="$msg\n"
		done
	fi
#
#	Send the mail
#
	echo| mailx -s "$BODY" "$email" 2>>"$err_f"