Well, I need help again sooner as I thought. Now I want to search for files with a known name within all subdirs, and copy the to differently named files in the same directory.
For example if I had only one file to copy, I would just use
Code:
cp fileName newFileName
but to do this recursively I would probably need find. I think I need something like
Code:
find . -name fileName -exec cp {} ... \
but I don't know how to put the target path instead of ...
As far as I know, the find output {} includes both path and filename "foundPath/fileName". I have to somehow keep the path, but to replace the filename through the new filename, to get "foundPath/newFileName".
before posting, I have tried to find my answer elsewhere. no luck.
I need to find a file buried in a folder somewhere.
Master folder has 10 sub folders.
each sub folder has folders too.
I found this but it does nothing
I am on Mac and use Applescript.
do shell script "find... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I will appreciate any help received. Our system is running on hpux v1
My problem is as follows:
We have many customer folders with name fd000100, fd000101 and so on
e.g.
(Testrun)(testsqa):/>ll /TESTrun/fd000100
total 48
drwxrwx--- 2 fq000100 test 96 Jun 27 2004... (17 Replies)
So I have extremely limited experience with shell scripting and I was hoping someone could point out a few commands I need to use in order to pull this off with a shell script like BASH or whatnot (this is on OS X).
I need to search out for filenames with account numbers in the name itself... (3 Replies)
I want to copy a file from the top directory into all the sub-folders and all of the sub-folders of those sub-folder etc. Does anyone have any idea how to do this?
Thanks in advance of any help you can give. (3 Replies)
Hi all,
Since my gopher server doesn't like filenames containing 2 or more consecutive dots in a filename, I'd like to do a search for them and replace them with... well, let's say underscores...
I've tried a oneliner or 2 from other posts, but they don't seem to work well with locating dots.... (3 Replies)
Hi
I have a problem with scp command :
I try to copy a list of files from source to destination, it works fine but if there is a directory not existing on destination, it doesn't automatic create.
Syntax :
scp -rp /<PATH>/<NEW_DIR>/<FILE> <USER_DEST>@<HOST_DEST>:<PATH>/<NEW_DIR>/<FILE>... (5 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I am experiencing a problem right now while copying a directory as well as its subdirectories to my target directory. I know this is a very simple UNIX command using cp -R source directory target directory. but unfortunatley while doing this an error comes up on the command line saying... (2 Replies)
Dear Group,
after trying numerous suggestions and racking my brain I cannot manage something which seems so simple.
Essentiallly, I would like to perform a recursive copy to a destination but give it a random name.
I assumed (incorrectly) that the following would work:
cp -r... (10 Replies)
I want to copy a directory recursively ( it again has directories) and the directory is on windows and is nfsmounted in vxWorks, i am using unix to develop the code for this, can any one suggest me how to copy the directories recursively. (7 Replies)
