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From: akaketwa on 2 Sep 2006 04:12
I am stuck guys. may you help with how to program a linux shell script
that copies files/folder from the local file system to another location
on the local machine or a remote windows machine. additionally, this
might need to be a cron task that runs once every week. thanx in
advance!!

From: Andy on 2 Sep 2006 04:44
The following script when run will copy the contents of the source
folder to the destination folder, if you are wanting to copy the files
to a remote windows machine then you could share the folder on the
windows system and then use 'samba' to mount the share on the unix
machine? That way you could use a script as below to copy the files
across?

Andy.


#!/bin/bash
#
cp -r /some/source/folder /some/destination/folder


Don't forget to make the file executable before you try and run it
using 'chmod 755 <filename>' ;-)

From: Akaketwa on 2 Sep 2006 05:25
thanks Andy. it works pretty fine. how then do you automate the task so
that it runs as a scheduled task. may yu suggest ways of naming the
folders that will be copied to the destination folder so that there
wont be overwriting of stuff. thanks




Andy wrote:
> The following script when run will copy the contents of the source
> folder to the destination folder, if you are wanting to copy the files
> to a remote windows machine then you could share the folder on the
> windows system and then use 'samba' to mount the share on the unix
> machine? That way you could use a script as below to copy the files
> across?
>
> Andy.
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> cp -r /some/source/folder /some/destination/folder
>
>
> Don't forget to make the file executable before you try and run it
> using 'chmod 755 <filename>' ;-)

From: Andy on 2 Sep 2006 06:05
Hi,

Try this :-

#!/bin/bash
#
foldername=`date +%F-%H%M%S`
cp -r /some/source/folder /some/destination/path/$foldername

This will create a foldername in the format YYYY-MM-DD-hhmmss - you can
change the format of the name by changing the parameters after the
'date' command.

To automate this you can use cron.

If you use crontab -e to edit the crontab.

* * * * * command to be executed
- - - - -
| | | | |
| | | | +----- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0)
| | | +------- month (1 - 12)
| | +--------- day of month (1 - 31)
| +----------- hour (0 - 23)
+------------- min (0 - 59)

As an example -

30 18 * * * rm /home/someuser/tmp/*

A line in crontab file like below removes the tmp files from
/home/someuser/tmp each day at 6:30 PM.

Just replace the command in the example above with the
/full/path/to/script to run you script when you like.

The following link has a good description of cron with plenty of
examples :-

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/crontab.htm

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