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Hello this is my first post on these forums.
For a little back ground into this, I recently installed a Linux server with the purpose of recording matches via a program called HLTV.
Now what I want to do is take the individual .dem files compress them one by one then move the compressed files to a different folder and delete the originals
I found a script that seemed to do the job but it doesn’t work and I can’t seem to debug it.
the source folder is /hlds/cstrike
destination folder is /hlds/cstrike/demos
file type is .dem
Thanks for any help.
For a little back ground into this, I recently installed a Linux server with the purpose of recording matches via a program called HLTV.
Now what I want to do is take the individual .dem files compress them one by one then move the compressed files to a different folder and delete the originals
I found a script that seemed to do the job but it doesn’t work and I can’t seem to debug it.
#!/bin/bash
HLDS= /hlds/cstrike/ #Working directory where demos are
REP=/hlds/cstrike/demos/ #copying directory
FORMAT=tar cvf
EXTENSION=tar
#FORMAT=zip #Compression using ZIP
#EXTENSION=zip #Associated extension
cd $HLDS
for files in `ls *.dem` do
$FORMAT $files.$(date +%s).$EXTENSION $files
echo "$files.$(date +%s).$EXTENSION compressed"
mv $files.$(date +%s).$EXTENSION $REP
echo "$files.$(date +%s).$EXTENSION moved"
rm $files
echo "$files deleted"
done;
echo "Demos are available in : $REP"the source folder is /hlds/cstrike
destination folder is /hlds/cstrike/demos
file type is .dem
Thanks for any help.
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Posting Whiz in Training
without really looking hard at the code, these variable declarations will not work
this one the space can't be used
it needs to be
also this will not work
I think you want to do this, you will need to place it in quotes
this one the space can't be used
HLDS= /hlds/cstrike/
HLDS=/hlds/cstrike
also this will not work
FORMAT=tar cvf
FORMAT="tar cvf"
In a perfect world exceptions would not be needed.
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Thanks for the help
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