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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving Files Post 302112142 by iAm4Free on Monday 26th of March 2007 07:30:07 AM
Old 03-26-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by cfajohnson

The beauty of a Unix system is the ability to create new commands from existing tools. If there isn't a command that does exactly what you want, write one.
Code:
## NAME: mvd -- Move file[s] to a (possibly none-existent) directory
## USAGE: mvd FILE ... DIR
## EXAMPLE: mvd /iAm4Free/test/generate/txt/information.txt /iAm4Free/test1/generate/txt

eval "destination=\$$#"
case $destination in
    */*) [ -d "$destination" ] || mkdir -p "$destination" || exit 1 ;;
esac
mv "$@"

Hey Johnson thanks... But I already submitted what I was supposed to do in a long way. I did a mv -f the filename from src and dest directories using the mkdir -p command to see if a directory dosen't exist. I did it in a longer way but I did like your logic of creating new commands Smilie But I didn't quite understand what you have written... it looks Fundoo to me Smilie Thanks..
 

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COPY(3) 								 1								   COPY(3)

copy - Copies file

SYNOPSIS
bool copy (string $source, string $dest, [resource $context]) DESCRIPTION
Makes a copy of the file $source to $dest. If you wish to move a file, use the rename(3) function. PARAMETERS
o $source - Path to the source file. o $dest - The destination path. If $dest is a URL, the copy operation may fail if the wrapper does not support overwriting of existing files. Warning If the destination file already exists, it will be overwritten. o $context - A valid context resource created with stream_context_create(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.4 | | | | | | | Changed the $context parameter to actually have | | | an effect. Previously, any $context was ignored. | | | | | 5.3.0 | | | | | | | Added context support. | | | | | 4.3.0 | | | | | | | Both $source and $dest may now be URLs if the | | | "fopen wrappers" have been enabled. See fopen(3) | | | for more details. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 copy(3) example <?php $file = 'example.txt'; $newfile = 'example.txt.bak'; if (!copy($file, $newfile)) { echo "failed to copy $file... "; } ?> SEE ALSO
move_uploaded_file(3), rename(3), The section of the manual about handling file uploads. PHP Documentation Group COPY(3)
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