Script failing to mv a file when the file exists???

[Chrissirhc]

I've got a crontab that runs a script and in the script is a line to rename a directory. Something like mv /app/myapp/logs/AppLog.log /app/myapp/logs/AppLog<date>.log

Anyway my crontab is emailing me

mv: cannot rename /app/myapp/logs/AppLog.log: No such file or directory

When there blatently is a file there... If I type &quot;cp /app/myapp/logs/AppLog.log /app/myapp/logs/test.log&quot; That works.

I can't do much testing because this is in a controlled environment. So I'm looking to you guys for ideas...

Maybe my script has some hidden characters that I'm not aware of???

Thanks in advance,

Chris

 

[KenCunningham]

Is the /app/myapp/logs/AppLog<date>.log
exactly how it appears in your script? If so, replace the <date> with `date` (note backticks, not apostrophes) and it should work. If that's not the case, post back. HTH.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Thanks a lot Ken.

The problem was to do with the file I was trying to rename to not the file I was trying to rename from.. As you had thought.

Although I didn't have <date> in it. that was just an example to say that the date was included somehow Bad example I guess.

Anyway problem solved.

Thanks,

Chris