Redirect output No such file or directory

Question

I am trying to launch a script to echo (as a test) the file name of files in a different directory but get the "No such file or directory" error. It looks like it is appending the whole directory of where I'm echoing from to the file name I'm trying to redirect to but how do I fix that. Thank you.

for filename in /data/logs/2017/jan/201701*
do
echo $filename > /home/bishopm/${filename%.gz}
done

Getting the following errors for each file trying to echo:

./data_collector.sh: line 5: /home/bishopm//data/logs/2017/jan/20170131: No such file or directory

What is the target path you want to use? `/home/bishopm/` or other? — Inian, May 03 '17 at 11:31
You need [Extract filename and extension in Bash](http://stackoverflow.com/q/965053/1983854) — fedorqui, May 03 '17 at 11:51

PMonti · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-03T13:49:10.030

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You actually need to tell sh that you want to iterate through the list of files in that directory, so you call the ls command

for filename in $(ls /data/logs/2017/jan/201701*);
do
file=$(basename $filename)
echo $file > /home/bishopm/${file%.gz}
done

Edit: now it should work, provided that the bishopm directory exists Edit2: substituted the rev | cut | rev chain with basename, thanks to Sild

edited May 03 '17 at 13:49

answered May 03 '17 at 11:30

PMonti

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`sh` expands the `*` already so in fact, you don't need to ls the files – Kind Stranger May 03 '17 at 11:32
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yes but the resulting $filename will have the full path, instead of the output of ls that would only be the name of the file. Also the forward slash problem does not happen in this way – PMonti May 03 '17 at 11:34
It still does the appending instead of only redirecting just the file name. – martinbshp May 03 '17 at 12:08
Only now I got what the problem was. Check if the edit fixes it for you – PMonti May 03 '17 at 12:17
Thanks PMonti! That did it. – martinbshp May 03 '17 at 12:24
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please use ```basename``` instead of ```rev|cut|rev```. It's more clear. – Sild May 03 '17 at 13:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 03 '17 at 11:30

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You've got 2 / in your path: /home/bishopm//.... Try:

...
echo $filename > "/home/bishopm${filename%.gz}"
...

answered May 03 '17 at 11:30

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 03 '17 at 13:37

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Redirect output No such file or directory

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