Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi RudiC

Thanks a lot. This worked like a gem. It took lot of code to achieve in Java. Unix did it in 3 lines.

I am adding one line for logging purpose.

Code:

echo "$FN" moved successfully to target" "$(date)" >>log.txt

If possible can you please suggest some exception handling cased.

Assume if the source file does not have a Series ID, if the source file failed to move to other location etc...

Thanks again for your help.

You can look into mv's -v (verbose) option to log what is actually done.
While I could post some error handling for this very basic snippet, I'd suggest you play around with e.g. if [ "$SERIES" -ne xxxxxx ] or if [ $? -ne 0 ] as an exercise to improve your shell scripting.

Thanks a lot...I am exploring these options.

I am receiving files in below format(.DAT followed by 4 numbers). I the filter to *.DAT* or *.DAT????. files are not getting picked tried searching for this in forums. No luck.

Code:

Sample1.DA9847
Sample2.DAT3498
Sample3.DAT9867

Observed one thing. This script is also picking the files which are getting copied along with existing files.

e.g. File A is existing and File B is getting copied (30% copied). When executed this script is moving File A (100%) and file B (30% copied) to target location. Is there anything to restrict in script to move only fully copied files?

Thanks in advance.

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That is difficult to believe; I can't replicate this behaviour:

Code:

for FN in *.DAT????; do echo $FN; done
Sample2.DAT3498
Sample3.DAT9867

Of course, Sample1.DA9847 won't match *.DAT* nor *.DAT????.

How do you tell copying is finished?