Issue

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Issue

• Move all txt files from /home/$USER to /commonfiles. However files which are being used by any process or user should not get copied.

Environment

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Resolution

Following script can be used to copy files from one directory to another excluding files which are in open mode.

#!/bin/bash

find /home/user -iname "*.txt" | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}' > testfile
test=`cat testfile  | cut -d '/' -f 4`
for id in $test
do
  /usr/sbin/lsof | grep $id  &>/dev/null
  OUT=$?
  if [ $OUT -ne 0 ];then
  filen=`grep $id testfile`
  find /home/user -iname $filen -exec cp {} /commonfiles/ \;
  fi
done

Set executable (x) permission on the script, then execute periodically using crontab.