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  • You don't need to cd to the folder since you've already declared a full path. Incidentally, it's better to use cd "$folder" || exit, and in the loop quote the variable:"$sourceFolder". and sourceFolder="/Users/rojadhanavath/Desktop/app/logs/*.gz" and cd "$sourceFolder" Commented Oct 2, 2020 at 16:28
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    It's probable there's an error message from cd that you haven't shown us, above the printing the file name loop Commented Oct 2, 2020 at 16:29