Issue with uploading a file using cli.

[bconroy1]

Hi,

I have a cron job that runs once a week which runs a psql query, outputs a file, gzips it, and uploads the file to box.

For some reason I am getting an empty file out there first, then when it tries to upload the "real" file it fails because a file exists with that name.

Has anyone seen that before, I know I don't have any other box uploads happening.

I am kinda doing a hacky work around that if I see that file existing I'll delete it before the real upload which may or may not even work because I don't know why the file is there in the first place.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks

bob

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!/bin/bash

today="$(date '+%Y-%m-%d')"

/home/bob/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.0/bin/box configure:environments:add /home/bob/the-jobs/box_config/config.json

psql ..... (creates the csv file)

sleep 10

gzip $HOME/the-jobs/output/the-report-${today}.csv

sleep 10

/home/bob/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.0/bin/box files:upload $HOME/the-jobs/output/the-report-${today}.csv.gz --parent-id 999999999

echo 'done'

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[arjankowski]

Hi @bemeric1 ,

Unfortunately I was unable to reproduce your issue. Have you tried to upload this *.gz file from pure console without any script and cron job? Plese just run this command with

/home/bob/.nvm/versions/node/v12.13.0/bin/box files:upload $HOME/the-jobs/output/the-report-2022-04-20.csv.gz --parent-id 999999999

Is the final result is the same?

@arjankowski

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