| === JanC_ is now known as JanC | ||
| Skyrider | Quick question if anyone is around. I'm trying to create a simple sh script file to remove files in a certain directory on a weekly basis. While it removes the file(s) just fine, it also leave an error output in the console when I run it manually: --> rm: cannot remove 'directory/*': No such file or directory | 11:25 |
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| Skyrider | With using a simple script line --> rm /directory/* | 11:26 |
| Skyrider | Guess I can use -f to ignore it. | 11:29 |
| Skyrider | Can someone point me to the right direction how to create a mv script if the file does not exist? | 12:04 |
| Skyrider | I tried using "if [ ! -f directory/file ]; then mv directory/file fi" but that doesn't appear to work either. Still same file does not exist error. | 12:05 |
| weedmic | how would you move a file that is not there? can you explain it a different way and by "script" do you mean a "bash script"? | 12:24 |
| weedmic | Skyrider: ^ | 12:25 |
| Skyrider | .sh shell script, and would only like to move the file if it exists. | 12:26 |
| weedmic | ok, so IF it exists, then move. | 12:35 |
| weedmic | I saw this one (I think is best)... [ ! -f src ] || mv src dest | 12:37 |
| Skyrider | Think I tried that as well before I used if [ ! -f directory/file ]; then mv | 12:47 |
| Skyrider | moment ^^ | 12:47 |
| Skyrider | Interesting, that worked. Wonder why the if statement didn't. | 12:50 |
| weedmic | odd, i did this verbatim and it worked - [ ! -f del.src ] || mv del.src Documents/ | 12:51 |
| weedmic | maybe you did not understnad, this will not crash a script if the document is not found and will continue, but it will not "try" to move a non-existing document | 12:51 |
| weedmic | i mean it will appear to work whether the doc is there or not, but not throw an exception if no document is there - it will just go to the next line (doing nothing after theh pipe) | 12:52 |
| Skyrider | It did work for me as well, but I also found the IF [ -f src ]; then FI statement online, which didn't ^^. | 12:53 |
| Skyrider | Making sure it doesn't throw out errors, as systemd timers loves to pop up errors if something fails. | 12:53 |
| weedmic | :D - must be why I did not like it (nor recommend it) - i tested the one I liked before showing you | 12:53 |
| weedmic | to me it is odd, b/c I love/need/hopefor errors - w/o them I can't fix things. | 12:54 |
| Skyrider | ^_^ appreciate it btw, thanks :D | 12:58 |
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