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    Automated copy of files from one directory to another

    Thank you for the advice ( and fast response ). Let me "play" for a bit and see what happens. Steve
  2. spsilver

    Automated copy of files from one directory to another

    Thank you! I will read the docs you suggest. 2 questions (before reading) 1. Would this be named as a .cgi and ran as such or what would trigger it to run daily at a certain time? 2. I do not want to copy all the files from dir1 to dir2. Only files that are mall.* What change would need to...
  3. spsilver

    Automated copy of files to a different directory

    Thank you. I understand CRON would be a way to make it run. Might you have a "trivial script" that I might alter? Is it as simple as cp /home/public_html/files/mall.* /home/public_html/john ?????????? Like an dos batch file? Thanks again, Newby
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    Automated copy of files from one directory to another

    Hi! Please pardon my simplistic question. I am a newby to Linux/Perl. I am wondering the best way to accomplish the copy of files named mall.* from /home/public_html/files/ to /home/public_html/john I need all the mall.* files copied daily at 10:00 am. There are about 9 files total. mall.1 ...
  5. spsilver

    Automated copy of files to a different directory

    Hi! Please pardon my simplistic question. I am a newby to Linux/Servers. I am wondering the best way to accomplish the copy of files named mall.* from /home/public_html/files/ to /home/public_html/john I need all the mall.* files copied daily at 10:00 am. There are about 9 files total. mall.1...

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