topic New script in Operating System - HP-UX

New script

Intothenewworld — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:23:19 GMT

I would like to have a new script to perform the below task .

I have a file called dummy.txt , the content of this file is as below .

aaa.prn
bbb.prn
ccc.prn

I would like to have a script which can do

1) check dummy.txt
2) then copy these files ( but with other extension .xls ) from a specify directory to another server
eg. scp the files /tmp/aaa.xls , /tmp/bbb.xls , /tmp/ccc.xls to /tmp of another server

can advise what can i do ?

thanks in advance.

Re: New script (to copy files)

Dennis Handly — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:33:19 GMT

You could do something like:

for file in $(< dummy.txt); do

base=${file%.prn} # strip suffix

scp /tmp/$base.xls remote:/tmp

done

Re: New script (to copy files)

Intothenewworld — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:23:31 GMT

it works , but may I have two additional requirement .

1) actually , the file name in dummy.txt have two type of prefix , one is xxx ( eg. xxxfile.prn ) , another one is yyy ( yyyfile.prn ) , if the file is xxx , then copy to /tmp of another server , if the file is yyy then copy to /tmp1 of another server , can advise what can i do ?

2) scp works fine to copy to remote server , can advise how to check and display if the scp is successful on the screen or not ?

thx

Re: New script (to copy files)

Dennis Handly — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:52:15 GMT

>1) the filename in dummy.txt have two type of prefix, one is xxx (eg. xxxfile.prn), another one is yyy (yyyfile.prn), if the file is xxx , then copy to /tmp of another server, if the file is yyy then copy to /tmp1 of another server?

>2) can advise how to check and display if the scp is successful on the screen or not?

Did you want to remove that prefix? I'm not doing it here.

for file in $(< dummy.txt); do

base=${file%.prn} # strip suffix

if [[ $base = xxx* ]]; then

server=server1

tmp=/tmp

elif [[ $base = yyy* ]]; then

server=server2

tmp=/tmp1

else

echo "Not sure where to send $file" 1>&2

continue

scp /tmp/$base.xls $server:$tmp

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

echo "scp failed to copy $file" 1>&2

done