move files periodically from one directory to another in SAME server. uses cron facility.

move-files.sh

#!/bin/bash

DIRECTORY="/home/lmsadmin/videos"
FILES=$DIRECTORY/*

if [ -d "$DIRECTORY" ]; then
        cd $DIRECTORY
        shopt -s nullglob dotglob     # To include hidden files
        files=($DIRECTORY/*)
                if [ ${#files[@]} -gt 0 ]; then
                        echo "dir is not empty, we can proceed. operation time : $(date +'%F-%H-%M')"
                        SAVEIFS=$IFS
                        IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
                        for f in $FILES
                        do
                            echo "files list"
                            echo `basename "$f"`
                            let count=count+1
                        done

                        echo "total files: "
                        echo "Count: $count"

                        # restore $IFS
                        IFS=$SAVEIFS

                        /bin/chown www-data:www-data $DIRECTORY/*
                        /bin/chmod 777 $DIRECTORY/*
                        /bin/mv -n * /var/www/moodledata/repository/videos/
                else
                        echo "dir exist but no files in it, passing. operation time: $(date +'%F-%H-%M')"
                fi
fi


# chmod +x move-files.sh
# after this, create cron 
# i use ubuntu 18!
#crontab -e 
# */10 * * * * /usr/local/bin/move-files.sh > 2>&1 | /usr/bin/logger -t TRANSFER
# all logs will be in syslog

every 10 minutes check the directory and move the files.