Thank you for your input. This is frustrating to me because this script DID work for many books, and only recently has it gone wonky. Hence my posting here.

Yes, the 'ls' is the OSX system command. Under that author here is what ls tells me:

ls -al "/Volumes/Backup3/httpd/public/local/fiction/data/Baldacci,Davi
+d"
-rw-r--r--@  1 user  admin  3115762 Feb 13  2019 End Game.epub
drwxr-xr-x   6 user  admin      204 May 30  2016 Saving Faith.epub

[download]

As you can see 'Saving Faith' is a directory, and only 204 bytes. But in Finder it shows up as 1MB and opens in iBooks.

As for other possibilities, I haven't altered the Apache config for years - if it works I leave it alone. No modules in there.

Something screwy in Skagway here :)

In reply to Re^2: copy an epub as a file, not a directory by Trudge
in thread copy an epub as a file, not a directory by Trudge

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