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craptakular

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hiya,

running xubuntu 9.04 but need a bash script from one of you linux masters.

What I want it to do is move all the contents of "/meda/disk1/finished/"

to

"/media/disk1/complete"

I need to run everyday at 8am automatically.

Can anyone be so kind as make me it? I assume it will need to go into init.d to get the schedule working?
 
Lazy boy! :p

Cron

Code: 
#!/bin/bash

# This script moves the downloaded goat pr0n.

mv /meda/disk1/finished/* /media/disk1/complete


No idea how to use cron. That is left as an exercise for the OP. ;)

EDIT : beaten. Holy quick replies, Batman!
 
eXor said:
Lazy boy! :p

Cron

Code: 
#!/bin/bash

# This script moves the downloaded goat pr0n.

mv /meda/disk1/finished/* /media/disk1/complete


No idea how to use cron. That is left as an exercise for the OP. ;)

EDIT : beaten. Holy quick replies, Batman!
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oh yeh lol, didn't realise it was that easy rofl, how did you know it move goat pron?
 
Code: 
mv: cannot move `/media/disk1/rofl/downloads/complete/TV/Prison Break' to `/media/disk1/TV/Prison Break': Directory not empty

How to fix? :s

I want the files added to the directory, not deleted.

Ps this is a DVD rip of a DVD i own so...
 
Team Powerlinux hang your heads in shame :p

rsync -a SOURCE/ DEST/ --remove-sent-files --ignore-existing --whole-file

that command works, it removes the files it copies over, and doesnt touch any other files.

I winzor
 
Surely since unix sees directories as files, that will do just the same thing...... Ie if his source dir contains a dir called prison break, and so does the dest, it just wont move prison break?
 
thegoonden said:
Surely since unix sees directories as files, that will do just the same thing...... Ie if his source dir contains a dir called prison break, and so does the dest, it just wont move prison break?
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you would think, but it says permissions denied, Directory not empty

running this command:

mv /media/disk1/mybackups/complete/TV/* /media/disk1/TV/
 
Oxy said:
you would think, but it says permissions denied, Directory not empty

running this command:

mv /media/disk1/mybackups/complete/TV/* /media/disk1/TV/
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That's because the * at the end of the path tells it to move the directory itself.

That is, do an ls:

Code: 
.
..
File.pr0n
More.pr0n
Dirty.pr0n
So it'll copy . - which is itself :)

At least I think that's what it's doing...
 
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thegoonden said:
Surely since unix sees directories as files, that will do just the same thing...... Ie if his source dir contains a dir called prison break, and so does the dest, it just wont move prison break?
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Ah no, you are in fact right - not me :)

cp can't move directories, you need to do it recursively, cp -r

But when all is said in done, rsync's better at doing the job you want so stick with that :p
 
BUT.........cp -r will overwrite subdirectories, not append to them..........eg


you have
/source/prisonbreak/
which contains
episode4
episode5
episode6

and of you have
/destination/prisonbreak/
Which contains
episode1
episode2
episode3

And you do
cp -r /source/* /destination/

You will end up with
/destination/prisonbreak/
containing only episodes 4 5 and 6


no?
 
thegoonden said:
BUT.........cp -r will overwrite subdirectories, not append to them..........eg


you have
/source/prisonbreak/
which contains
episode4
episode5
episode6

and of you have
/destination/prisonbreak/
Which contains
episode1
episode2
episode3

And you do
cp -r /source/* /destination/

You will end up with
/destination/prisonbreak/
containing only episodes 4 5 and 6


no?
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copy it over will still leave the source files, thus duplicating data.

I found with the rcync way it only replaces files in destination that aren't there then deletes what it moves from source.

All I need to do now is work out how to change the owner of /media/disk1/ from root to my username. cos at mo the rsync command only works once sudo'd.
 
thegoonden said:
chown username.usergroup /media/disc1
(while unmounted)

If it's external media, you may also need to add your user to a group like "disc" or "dvd".
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ta for that, I dunno fuppes is a PITA. Gonna try Arch linux, as there wiki is a lot better than ubuntu/ubuntuforums.org

It seems everything I do one little component wont work :/

Gonna give it a couple more days on this home server, if I cant get all i wanna work on arch linux, i'll be forced to just slap XP on it and be done with it.

/Angry Oxy
 
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