Hi there,

Im writing a simple archive shell script that will simply gzip a file via cron.

Now the file that is being gzip'ed , there is already another copy of it and cron wont run it as there is already a copy of it :(

How can I have the script so that it will auto overwrite the existing file?

Thanks a lot.

Maybe something like;

if (-e '/path/to/file.txt') { system("rm -f /path/to/file.txt"); }

This assumes you are on a UNIX server.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Running into the same problem myself using gpg.

My temporary solution is to create the file, then email it (or ftp it) to myself and then delete (unlink) the file from the server so the next time the script runs it doesn't ask for any input.

Another way would be to perhaps incorporate today's date into the filename?