"why bother calling a separate script at all?" Because, I don't want the capture files written over if tshark is launched multiple times in a short period of time. Thank you for the -b option. I believe I need that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Munir Nassar" <nassarmu at gmail.com> To: "tclug-list" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:09:44 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] bash script not working properly I suspect that the wait has something to do with it, is the idea to wait for the tshark to complete? I would use a sleep 5 before calling movit.sh. speaking of which, why now put the mv commands at the end of the ts.sh? why bother calling a separate script at all? Finally, you should be using the -b option to tshark to put it in multiple output mode to collect pcaps over time something like -b duration:60 On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 12:48 PM <admin at lctn.org> wrote: > > I have a simple bash script (ws.sh), with the following 2 commands: > > #!/bin/bash > > tshark -i enp1s0 -a duration:60 -w /home/raymond/capture.pcapng > > wait > > /home/raymond/movit.sh > > Movit.sh: > > > #!/bin/bash > mv capture.pcapng $(date +%F-%H:%M)1.pcapng && touch capture.pcapng > echo "All Done!" > > The first command always works properly but the second does not run via cron. However, running the script (ws,sh) via the command line executes properly. I have tried sleep and wait between commands but nothing works, so far. > > Ideas? > > > > Raymond Norton > LCTN > 952.955.7766 > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list