02-12-2013
You can just read the filenames from your file using a while-read loop. Within that loop, use cp. To generate the destination filename, you can use sed or the shell's parameter expansion operators to strip leading directories, modify the filename (e.g. ${var//pattern/replacement}), and prepend the new directory.
Alternatively, you can use pax in copy mode, -rw, with the -s option to modify the filenames as they're copied to the destination.
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Alister
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NAME
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SYNOPSIS
/usr/ucb/install [-cs] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] filename1 filename2
/usr/ucb/install [-cs] [-g group] [-m mode] [-o owner] filename... directory
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Note: install uses no special privileges to copy files from one place to another. The implications of this are:
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