Renaming .bad files

[KenEwald]

This is a (bash) script that renames my import bad file(s) if they exist with a date stamp.

for file in /import/load/bad/*.bad
do
mv $file $file-`date "+%y%m%d%n"`
done

If there are no bad files, I get this error message:
"No such file or directory"

It triggers cron to send me an email that is not necessary. I don't want to know that there are no bad files.

I've tried a couple things that haven't worked:

Encase in if
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if [ -e /import/load/bad/*.bad ];
then
do ... done
fi
RESULT: line 1: [: /import/load/bad/verb1.bad: binary operator expected
NOTE: I'm guessing I can't test with a wildcard.

Get last file
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CHECK=`ls -rt /import/load/bad/*.bad|tail -1`
echo $CHECK
RESULT: ls: /import/load/bad/*.bad: No such file or directory

[Mr.Hanky]

How does that script trigger a cronjob?


Can you post the cronjob?

[marist89]

man find

find /import/load/bad/ -name \*.bad -type f

[marist89]

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
How does that script trigger a cronjob?


Can you post the cronjob?

Look Windoz boy, when the job you are running sends output to stderr cron sends you the output of stderr in an email.

[Mr.Hanky]

Originally posted by marist89
Look Windoz boy, when the job you are running sends output to stderr cron sends you the output of stderr in an email.

HUH?

I NEVER got an email from ANY Unix job I have run.

Educate us all oh "Geniused" one.

http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/usd/scisup/f...rection-1.html

Says the default is the terminal.

[KenEwald]

"find" is so sweet...

/usr/bin/find /import/load/bad/ -name \*.bad -type f -exec mv {} {}-`date "+%y%m%d%n"` \;

When there are no files, it doesn't return the error.

Nice .. Thanks guys!

[hacketta1]

Errr, that link isn't talking about cron.

From http://216.147.18.102/unixfaq/cron.shtml:
"Any output your cron job produces, both stdout and stderr, will be sent to you by Unix email

[gandolf989]

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky
HUH?

I NEVER got an email from ANY Unix job I have run.

Hey genious, log into Unix and type mail, then press return!

[simply_dba]

This could also have worked

for file in `ls -l /import/load/bad/*.bad 2>/dev/null`
do
echo $file
done

[marist89]

Originally posted by Mr.Hanky

I NEVER got an email from ANY Unix job I have run.

Perhaps you never ran a cron job, eh?

Educate us all oh "Geniused" one.

http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/usd/scisup/f...rection-1.html

Says the default is the terminal.

From a cron my point-and-click friend, the default is mail.