automatically moving files

Dr_Travis · 05-27-2002, 04:01 PM

Hey all, quick question. I want to moves files from one directory to another directory automatically. Would chrontab be the best utility to use, or is there a way to link the directories so the files imediatley move from one dir to the other.
If Chrontab is the best bet could someone tell me what is wrong with this crontab.cron entry?
1 * * * * mv%-u /dir1 /dir2

Thanks in advance
Travis

finegan · 05-27-2002, 06:44 PM

That crontab would mean that everything was moved from /dir1 to /dir2 once a minute. You just want anything that ever gets placed in one directory to get moved to another? This sounds like a raging call for a symlink.

ln -s /dir2 dir1 After, of course removing the original dir1.

Cheers,

Finegan