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From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g DOT r DOT vansickle AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Mv after tar in a shell script problems
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 04:17:32 -0500
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> Am I losing my mind, or shouldn't this "just work"(tm) in a 
> shell script?:
> 
>  #!/bin/sh
>  # ^^ behaves the same if it's /bin/bash
> 
>  tar xvjf file.tar.bz2
>  mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name
> 
> ???
> 
> About half the time I get "Permission denied" from mv, the 
> other half it works fine.  If I do it by hand, even after a 
> "Permission denied", it works fine.  This is with both the 
> current DLL snapshot and 1.5.16-1, current coreutils.  I must 
> be missing something pretty basic here, because configures 
> etc are working fine.
> 

...and, if I change the mv to a loop which keeps trying if there's a
failure:

  while ! mv dir_name_file.tar.bz2_untars_to new_dir_name; do echo "retrying
move..."; done

it will eventually work after a few iterations.

I... huh?

I'll brew up a test case, this is nutso.

-- 
Gary R. Van Sickle
 


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