Shell Programming and Scripting

I have written a korn shell script .
I copy a file from one mounted directory to other using cp command.
This script runs daily at a time.
But sporidally it fails to copy the files. So I have missing files at the destination directory for some days.
Is my method a good one or is there some way i can throw an error if the cp command fails

Do you have a log file for the script, and what does it record for the failing copies?

Hi,

There are lots files on a mounted path in my case as well.
And there is a scheduled script that copies these mounted files to different directories weekly.
Out of files on mounted path, 90% of files are copied properly with exact size.

Remaining are not being copied properly.
Eg: If there is file say emp with 1.5 million reocrds,the cp command copies just about 4000 records.

I am not sure what is problem with command here?

Anybody facing similar problem and how this could be solved?


Another note, The files which are not copied properly by the scheduled script are easily copied manually.

Any idea on how this could be resolved?

Regards,
Raj

pls see post #2

Please do not leave people guessing. Show your script and specify what OS and versions being used, or this thread will be closed.

The command I am executing is as simple as this.

cp /affinity/atbndxArchive/atb4daily.txt.${Y2K_DATE} /smr