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Prasadgov
Prasadgov

Reputation: 1

Moving files failed

I inherited an perl script and trying it now on an Linux.

I have this command,

my $c = "$CONFIG_FILE.completed";
        write_log "Moving to Done: $c\n";
        chomp(my $qxout=qx(mv -t $DONE_DIR $c 2>&1));
        logNdie "$PROGNAME: ERROR: Move to Done FAILED($?) for $c (output='$qxout')\n" if $?;

where $DONE_DIR = /pvc/ohdr/topology

But it fails to recognize the t option

I get

ohdr_cucp_sip_fix_04132022.pl: ERROR: Move to Done FAILED(256) for SIP_CUCP_FILES_VNISIPSUCCESS_20220414132902_1.cnfg.completed (output='mv: unrecognized option: t

Any solution?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 190

Answers (1)

FractalLotus
FractalLotus

Reputation: 368

At first while looking at the documentation for mv I didn't see the '-t' option.

It looks like there are different implementations out there for mv. Most of the man pages I found do not mention the -t option.

I found documentation for mv here that mentions the -t option. I found another thread that mentions it also.

Since it isn't recognized on your platform you will need to find another solution or find a way to get the correct version of mv.

The -t option is supposed to specify a directory for moving a list of files into. Since you only have the file specified by $c you should be able to change this

mv -t $DONE_DIR $c 2>&1

to this:

mv $c $DONE_DIR 2>&1

Edit: Or, as ikegami pointed out, since -t protects from copying to a file named $c if the folder is missing, you can add a trailing slash to the destination like this:

mv $c $DONE_DIR/ 2>&1

I found a longer explanation at this SO thread.

Upvotes: 1

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