Script to move incoming Files on Linux Suse 9.3

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE_PATH="/path/to/SFTP/incoming"
DEST_PATH="/path/to/where/you/want/them"

touch $HOME/safe.log

CURRENT_FILES=`cat $SOURCE_PATH`
TMP=""
SAFE=""

for safe_check in $CURRENT_FILES ;
do
TMP=`ps -A | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep "$safe_check"` ; # list everything active each in a newline, grep for filename
if [ $TMP != "" ]
then
SAFE=$((SAFE + TMP))
else
DATE=`date`
echo "$DATE: $TMP is still being loaded to FTP" >> $HOME/safe.log
fi

for move in $SAFE ; do mv $SOURCE_PATH/$move $DEST_PATH/$move ; done

# you should add this to cronjob, miss typed the /$move in my last post on the last line

crap another typo...

line:
CURRENT_FILES=`cat $SOURCE_PATH`

should be:
CURRENT_FILES=`ls $SOURCE_PATH`

Thanks,
but I'm getting this:

ftp1:/etc/cron.hourly # sh sf_ep
sf_ep: line 25: syntax error: unexpected end of file

Sorry I missed a "done"...

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE_PATH="/path/to/SFTP/incoming"
DEST_PATH="/path/to/where/you/want/them"

touch $HOME/safe.log

CURRENT_FILES=`ls $SOURCE_PATH`
TMP=""
SAFE=""

for safe_check in $CURRENT_FILES ;
do
TMP=`ps -A | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep "$safe_check"` ; # list everything active each in a newline, grep for filename
if [ $TMP != "" ]
then
SAFE=$((SAFE + TMP))
else
DATE=`date`
echo "$DATE: $TMP is still being loaded to FTP" >> $HOME/safe.log
fi
done ; # << missing done

for move in $SAFE ; do mv $SOURCE_PATH/$move $DEST_PATH/$move ; done

Thanks but....

now getting this

Thanks but.....

Now getting this:

mv: cannot stat `/home/scponly/path/path/0': No such file or directory

No idea where the 0 is coming from?

Doing the following:

$SOURCE_PATH="/home/scponly/incoming"
$DEST_PATH="/home/winsoc"

mv $SOURCE_PATH $DEST_PATH

in a BASH Shell without scripting works fine.
Could the [for move in $SAFE ; do mv $SOURCE_PATH/$move $DEST_PATH/$move ; done]
be wrong?
I'm not understanding what the /$move does.

Thanks for the support Alex

Regards,
winsoc

/$move

moves them one at a time if not currently active (found in ps -A)

As for the 0, what version of bash are you using?

the first thing that came to mind that there is nothing in source file.

But...

I've been running altered version of this script and getting a new error token. When I first tried it out I didn't have any file extensions (ie: test instead of test.txt)

Give me the night to work on it. Sorry about this.

The following produces...

~/test_source$ ls
activescript.sh  activescript.sh~  test1  test2  test3
~/test_source$ ../movescript.sh
~/test_source$ ls
activescript.sh
:~/test_source$

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE_PATH="/home/user/test_source"
DEST_PATH="/home/user/test_dest"

touch $HOME/safe.log

CURRENT_FILES=`ls $SOURCE_PATH`
TMP=""
SAFE=""

for safe_check in $CURRENT_FILES ;
do
TMP=`ps -A | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep "$safe_check"` ; # list everything active each in a newline, grep for filename
if [ "$TMP" != "" ] ;
then
DATE=`date`
echo "$DATE: $TMP is still being loaded to FTP" >> $HOME/safe.log
else
TMP2="$SAFE"
SAFE="$TMP2 $safe_check"
fi
done ; # << missing done

for move in $SAFE ; do mv $SOURCE_PATH/$move $DEST_PATH/$move ; done

Contents of $HOME/safe.log

Sun Sep 18 03:19:23 UTC 2005: activescript.sh is still being loaded to FTP


activescript.sh was just a never ending while loop btw

crap just realized that I ran the test from the source folder
you need a line after touch $HOME/safe.log which should be

cd $SOURCE_PATH

man, feel free to give me a F grade on this :P

:)

OK heres whats happening now:

This is the script:

#!/bin/bash

SOURCE_PATH="/home/scponly/incoming/To_EP"
DEST_PATH="/home/winsoc"

touch $HOME/safe.log
cd $SOURCE_PATH

CURRENT_FILES=`ls $SOURCE_PATH`
TMP=""
SAFE=""

for safe_check in $CURRENT_FILES ;
do
TMP=`ps -A | sed 's/ /\n/g' | grep "$safe_check"` ; # list everything active in a newline, grep for filename
if ["$TMP" != ""]
then
DATE=`date`
echo "$DATE: $TMP is still being loaded to SFTP" >> $HOME/safe.log
else
TMP2="$SAFE"
SAFE="$TMP2 $safe_check"
fi
done ;
for move in $SAFE ; do mv $SOURCE_PATH/$move $DEST_PATH/$move ; done


And this is the result:
[Whole load of processes listed here]...
7405
pts/2
00:00:00
ps
7406
pts/2
00:00:00
sed
7407
pts/2
00:00:00
grep: No such file or directory
mv: cannot overwrite directory `/home/winsoc/./.'
mv: cannot overwrite directory `/home/winsoc/../..'
ftp1:/home/scponly/incoming/To_EP # ls /home/winsoc

Have I done something wrong here or what am I not understanding :D