Shell Script help to copy directory them remove

Question

I want to write simple script to copy/backup directory then remove on server startup. So something like this:

TC_DIR=${SERVER_HOME}/terracotta
CLUSTER_STAT_DIR=${TC_DIR}/cluster-stat

cp ${CLUSTER_STAT_DIR} ${TC_DIR}/old.cluster-stat
rm ${CLUSTER_STAT_DIR}

Thanks for help guys.

Answer 1

I believe what you have done should work with the only addition that you need to pass -r options to both cp and rm as you are dealing with directories. Try this:

TC_DIR=${SERVER_HOME}/terracotta
CLUSTER_STAT_DIR=${TC_DIR}/cluster-stat

cp -r ${CLUSTER_STAT_DIR} ${TC_DIR}/old.cluster-stat
rm -rf ${CLUSTER_STAT_DIR}

EDIT: if your question is how to execute that on startup take a look here .