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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need help in Copy Command Post 302130026 by cfajohnson on Thursday 2nd of August 2007 11:43:00 PM
Old 08-03-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by ranga27
i need to copy some files from a directory and move the copy files to some destination with the extension .dat
Code:
copy_destination=/path/to/a/directory
dat_destination=/path/to/some/destination
cp * "$copy_destination"
for file in *
do
  mv "$file" "$dat_destination/$file.dat"
done

Replace the directory paths with the correct paths, and if you do not want to copy and move all the files, change * to whatever files you do want to copy.

 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS

gvfs-move

gvfs-move(1)							   User Commands						      gvfs-move(1)

NAME

       gvfs-move - move a file from one VFS location to another

SYNOPSIS

       gvfs-move source-URI destination-URI

DESCRIPTION

       gvfs-move moves a file from one URI location to another, using the virtual file system.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       source-URI	       Specifies the source file location in standard URI format.

       destination-URI	       Specifies the destination file or directory location in standard URI format.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Moving a File From a Web Server to a Local File

       example%
	       gvfs-move http://www.sun.com file:///home/user/index.html

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables: NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit value 0 is returned regardless of success or failure.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gvfs-move      Executable to move a file from one VFS location to another

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-gvfs		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gvfs-cat(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-rename(1), gvfs-info(1), gvfs-less(1), gvfs-ls(1), gvfs-mkdir(1) gvfs-monitor-dir(1), gvfs-monitor-file(1),
       gvfs-mount(1), gvfs-copy(1), gvfs-open(1), gvfs-rm(1), gvfs-save(1), gvfs-trash(1), gvfs-tree(1), attributes(5), environ(5)

NOTES

       Written by Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.

SunOS 5.11							    25 Mar 2008 						      gvfs-move(1)
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