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Asked: 2014-06-15 12:35:17 +0800 CST

Good shell script to move a file to another location?

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I'm trying to write a shell scrip to move a file to a a different location when it's found. And when it's not found to move a file from that different location to its location. This is basically my first try at writing shell scripts so be easy on me.

#!/bin/bash
 FILE=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libfreshwrapper.so;


if [ -f $FILE ];
then
   echo "File $FILE exists"
   echo "moving $FILE to home"
   mv -f $File /home/jon/temporary
else
   echo "File $FILE does not exists"
   echo "moving file back"
   mv -f /home/jon/temporary/libfreshwrapper.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
   echo "done!"
fi

this is my problem. 

File /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libfreshwrapper.so exists
moving /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libfreshwrapper.so to home
mv: missing destination file operand after ‘/home/jon/temporary’
scripts

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You need to change the line

    mv -f $File /home/jon/temporary (Ln 9)

    to

    mv -f $FILE /home/jon/temporary

    You declared it in capitals.

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