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Old 05-26-2009
cambridge cambridge is offline
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It looks to me like your problem is with this line:

Code:
cp $i idoc.dat
You haven't set the 'i' variable by this point, it is empty, hence the error from the 'cp' command - which expects two arguments. You don't set 'i' until a few lines later:

Code:
for i in 3526*.dat