Am I losing my mind, or shouldn't this just work(tm) in a shell script?:
#!/bin/sh
# ^^ behaves the same if it's /bin/bash
tar xvjf file.tar.bz2
mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name
???
About half the time I get Permission denied from mv, the other half it
works fine. If I do
Am I losing my mind, or shouldn't this just work(tm) in a
shell script?:
#!/bin/sh
# ^^ behaves the same if it's /bin/bash
tar xvjf file.tar.bz2
mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name
???
About half the time I get Permission denied from mv, the
other half it works
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a
failure:
while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo retrying
move...; done
it will eventually work after a few iterations.
I... huh?
I'll brew up a test case, this
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To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
...and, if I change the mv to a loop
On May 18 02:30, Brian Dessent wrote:
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a
failure:
while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo retrying
move...; done
it will eventually work after a few iterations.
On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Unless tar is doing something like untarring to a temp directory and then
doing a shell-api move that it doesn't wait for. I don't know. I'll get a
test case together and... well, I'm sure then the problem will mysteriously
vanish. ;-)
What about
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Sounds not convincing. If the OS isn't able to deal with such a basic
situation, it's seriously unusable. Windows might have some annoying
properties, but it's certainly usable.
I'm just running a script which desperatly tries to reproduce the above
problem, but
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Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 5:01 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Mv after tar in a shell script problems
On May 18 04:57, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
Unless tar is doing
Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I still get
Permission Denieds. Gat dang, and I was just itching to put McAff... er,
I mean, a certain virus scanner manufacturer... back at the top of The List
I don't know if it matters in this case
On May 18 05:45, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
What about using strace or, better, gdb? Does it even occur
under strace?
As I said, WJFFM for hundreds of iterations.
Corinna
Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is my old nemesis
- The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee
Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is
my old nemesis
- The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee here... Yep, still doing
it, let's check
if... ACTIVESHIELD HAS TURNED ITSELF ON AGAIN...
...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change
anything, I still get
Oh wait waitwaitwaitwaitwait... What this looks more like is my old
nemesis
- The Nosy Virus Scanner! Lessee here... Yep, still doing
it, let's
check if... ACTIVESHIELD HAS TURNED ITSELF ON AGAIN...
...only, disabling it and even rebooting don't change anything, I
still get
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