Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Shell Script to read source file and copy it to target file

#!/bin/bash
# Shell to read source file and copy it to target file. If the file
# is copied successfully then give message 'File copied successfully'
# else give message 'problem copying file'
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

echo -n "Enter soruce file name : "
read src
echo -n "Enter target file name : "
read targ

if [ ! -f $src ]
then
echo "File $src does not exists"
exit 1
elif [ -f $targ ]
then
echo "File $targ exist, cannot overwrite"
exit 2
fi

# copy file
cp $src $targ

# store exit status of above cp command. It is use to
# determine if shell command operations is successful or not
status=$?

if [ $status -eq 0 ]
then
echo 'File copied successfully'
else
echo 'Problem copuing file'
fi

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