Ignoring error messages

[Chrissirhc]

Hi,

Say in a script I put "mv /app/myfile.txt /app/myfile2.txt"

and myfile.txt doesn't exist. And I put that script in a crontab....

When the crontab runs it sends out an error saying mv: cannot access /app/myfile.txt

Is there a switch that I can use with "mv" so that it just ignores that? (i.e. if it can't find the file then it doesn't care).

Thanks,

Chris

 

[predamarcel]

"mv /app/myfile.txt /app/myfile2.txt 2>/dev/null"


__

http://marcell.hypermart.net/

___

 

[PHV]

[ -f /app/myfile.txt ] && mv /app/myfile.txt /app/myfile2.txt

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Yep. Thanks for both your answers. I'm using the second although slightly modified.

Thanks,

Chris