Dear All,
I am trying to write a script to monitor time taken to copy a File from a SAN volume to a disk on a workstation and I get the error below:

cp: cannot stat `/Volumes/RAID 1/copydownfolder/copyupfolder:': No such file or directory

I would like the script to skip any folders in the source directory. Please see the script below...

#!/bin/sh

dir1="/Users/admin/Desktop/copydownfolder/"

format="%-30s %-30s %-10s\n"
format1="%-1s %-1s\n"
printf "$format1" SECTION I
printf "$format" "Date and Time", "File Copy Duration", "Filename"
printf "$format" "-------------", "------------------", "-----------------------------------------------------"

## Section I

IFS=$'\n'

for L in $(ls /Volumes/RAID\ */copydownfolder/*)

do
if [ ! -d $L ]; then

exit 1
fi

before=$(date +%s)

# commands to time go here

`cp $L $dir1`

after=$(date +%s)

elapsed_seconds=$(expr $after - $before)

printf "$format" $(date), $elapsed_seconds, $L

done

format2="%-1s\n"
printf "$format2"


Thank you for your response..

Hi,

There seems to be a space in the source: Try change the cp command to: BTW: Are the execution quotes really needed around the cp command? Another thing that could make your life a bit easier: the time command (time cp source destination)

Hope this helps.

To copy only regular files (and not directories), you coud use:

Also, you could use the command on the for cycle to measure total elapsed time.