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February 09, 2012, 04:25:45 PM

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Author Topic: Cron copy and rename file assistance needed  (Read 3171 times)
idjn
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« on: August 10, 2009, 11:38:42 AM »
I need to copy a file, once each night, to a new directory. And rename the file once moved.

This CRON job I added doesn't seem to do it:

cp -f /public_html/mysite-com/infofeeds/data-monday.txt /public_html/mysite-com/index.txt

data-monday.txt needs be moved and renamed index.txt monday morning...
data-tuesday.txt needs be moved and renamed index.txt tuesday morning...
data-wednesday.txt needs be moved and renamed index.txt wednesday morning, etc.

None of the old "index.txt" files need to be saved.

Thanks for any tips!
Brian
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MrPhil
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« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2009, 05:50:36 AM »
There's no such directory as /public_html. Either drop the leading "/" or add "/home/ACCOUNTNAME" in front of it. When you start up a cron job, you are usually in the /home/ACCOUNTNAME/ directory.
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idjn
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« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2009, 10:53:41 AM »
Thanks.. making fix to test

Brian

Quote from: MrPhil on August 11, 2009, 05:50:36 AM
There's no such directory as /public_html. Either drop the leading "/" or add "/home/ACCOUNTNAME" in front of it. When you start up a cron job, you are usually in the /home/ACCOUNTNAME/ directory.
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« Reply #3 on: April 30, 2010, 10:12:39 AM »
I have a linux box which creates video files hourly, I need to backup these files once they are created to a network share accesible via smb - the files are date stamped; YYYYMMDDHH.mpg


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