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10-20-2008
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Copy files listed in a text file - whitespace problem.
Hi, Say I have this text file <copy.out> that contains a list of files/directories to be copied out to a different location. Code:
$ more copy.out dir1/file1 dir1/file2 dir1/file3 "dir1/white space" dir1/file4 If I do the following: Code:
$copy=`more copy.out` $echo $copy dir1/file1 dir1/file2 dir1/file3 "dir1/white space" dir1/file4 $cp -v $copy ./temp dir1/file4 -> ./temp/file4 cp: space": No such file or directory cp: "dir1/white: No such file or directory dir1/file3 -> ./temp/file3 dir1/file2 -> ./temp/file2 dir1/file1 -> ./temp/file1 All of the files managed to be copied except for the file with a whitespace. I have tried using for loop, but the same thing happened. Code:
$ copy=`while read line; do echo "$line"; done < copy.out` $ echo $copy dir1/file1 dir1/file2 dir1/file3 "dir1/white space" dir1/file4 $ cp -v $copy ./temp dir1/file4 -> ./temp/file4 cp: space": No such file or directory cp: "dir1/white: No such file or directory dir1/file3 -> ./temp/file3 dir1/file2 -> ./temp/file2 dir1/file1 -> ./temp/file1 I edited copy.out and replace "dir1/white space" with dir1/white\ space but it didn't work. Just by simply removing the double quotes failed to work either. I understand that by using echo, it will flatten any whitespace in $variable into a single space, so I've tried using double quotes $variable, but again, it failed to copy the file with a whitespace. I don't like whitespace in files/dirs name, but some people seem to like it, so I'd like to know how to fix this problem. Any advice offered is appreciated. Thanks. |
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10-20-2008
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Code:
$ cat copy.out dir1/file1 dir1/file2 dir1/file3 dir1/white space dir1/file4 $ while read file;do echo cp "$file" ./Newdir;done <copy.out cp dir1/file1 ./Newdir cp dir1/file2 ./Newdir cp dir1/file3 ./Newdir cp dir1/white space ./Newdir cp dir1/file4 ./Newdir |
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10-20-2008
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Code:
$ (IFS=$'\n"';cp -v $(<copy.out) dir2) `dir1/file1' -> `dir2/file1' `dir1/file2' -> `dir2/file2' `dir1/file3' -> `dir2/file3' `dir1/white space' -> `dir2/white space' `dir1/file4' -> `dir2/file4' |
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10-20-2008
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danmero, radoulov, cfajohnson:
All solutions worked  Thank you so much! |
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