topic Re: shell script help in Operating System - HP-UX

shell scrpt help

rajesh73 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 06:58:07 GMT

$pwd
$/home/rajesh
$cd data1

$pwd

$/home/rajesh/data1
$ls
fa00 fa02 fa03 fa04 fa05 fa06 fa07 fa08 fa09 fa10 fa11 fa12 fa13 fa15 fa16
fa17 fa18 nas file2 fa18 fa19 fa20 fa21 fa22 fa23 fa24 fa25 fa26 fa27 fa28 fa29

fa 30 fa31 fa32 fa33 fa34 fa35 fa36

we need to write one script for mv command.

we need to move all file files and folser under the /home/rajesh/data1 , except nas and file2 folders

how to write the script.

please help me

Re: shell script help

Dennis Handly — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:35:59 GMT

Where are you moving it to? The same filesystem?

If the same, then move all files and then move nas and file2 back. If doing a copy, this would be too expensive.

In a real shell you can also do:

mv !(nas|file2) target/

First, try an echo to make sure it does what you want.

Re: shell script help

rajesh73 — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:18:00 GMT

hi dennis,

thnaks for providing the details.

but now user request to delete the all files expect nas&file2.

pls help me

Re: shell script help

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:56:15 GMT

Something like this should work:

# cat mv-files.sh

#!/usr/bin/sh

cd /home/rajesh/data1

DATAFILES=$(ls -1 |grep -v -e nas -e file2)

mv ${DATAFILES} /new/dir

Re: shell script help

Dennis Handly — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 17:19:49 GMT

>now user request to delete the all files except nas & file2.

Just replace "mv" by "rm -rf". Check it with echo first.