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From my first reply:

Code:
find . -type f -name 'tmp*' -print | ...
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From my first reply:

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find . -type f -name 'tmp*' -print | ...
thanks for reply
i tried this also but fail.
can u please give whole script.
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Have you try to find out why it fails?
Put some effort into solving the problem with the given examples instead of always asking for the right answers.

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Have you try to find out why it fails?
Put some effort into solving the problem with the given examples instead of always asking for the right answers.

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thanks for reply

cd /home/jagannath.n
dated=$(date +%d-%m-%y)
test -d /home/jagannath.n/tmp/$dated | mkdir /home/jagannath.n/tmp/$dated
file=$(find . -name test* -print)
cp -rf $file /home/jagannath.n/tmp/$dated

my problem is solved using above script but it print below error .

cp: cannot stat `./Azureus': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `Downloads/SHELL': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `SCRIPTING': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `IN': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `LINUX/VTC': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `-': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `UNIX': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `SHELL': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `SCRIPTING': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ADVANCED/Course': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `Files/Chapter': No such file or directory


is it error?
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It's because you don't quote the arguments properly. But just adding double quotes around "$file" doesn't really help, either, because it's not a single file. I'd still recommend using tar or cpio for this.

Note there are two |:s before the mkdir, it's an "or"; "a || b" is a shorthand for "if not a then b" (which is equivalent to "a or b").
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try this

Code:
#! /usr/bin/ksh

cd /home/backup/
find /home/abc/ -name "*.s" | while read line
do
  p=$(dirname $line )
  p1=$(echo $p | sed 's/\///')
  mkdir -p $p1
  cd $p1
  tocopy=$(pwd)
  echo $tocopy
  cp $line $tocopy
  cd -
done
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That will still not cope with file names with spaces in them. Proper quoting, please!!
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