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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help with test command Post 302283785 by cfajohnson on Wednesday 4th of February 2009 03:55:08 AM
Old 02-04-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franklin52
Assuming $base1 is the destination directory:

Code:
ls *.ctl *.dat | while read file
do
  cp "$file" "$base1"
done

Regards

Why would you use a loop for that?

Code:
cp *.ctl *.dat "$base1"

(And that loop would fail if any matching filenames had leading whitespace.)
 

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fl-monitor-ctl

FL-MONITOR-CTL(1)						   Debian manual						 FL-MONITOR-CTL(1)

NAME

       fl-monitor-ctl - monitors server health during funkload benchs

SYNOPSIS

       fl-monitor-ctl [ options ] config_file [ start | startd | stop | restart | status | test ]

DESCRIPTION

       fl-monitor-ctl monitors server health during a Funkload bench. It is implemented as an XML-RPC server.

       A configuration file needs to be setup in order to use this server. Please refer to demo/simple/credential.conf for an example.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Show program's version number and exit

       --help, -h
	      Show a help message and exit

       --quiet, -q
	      Verbose output

SEE ALSO

       fl-build-report(1), fl-credential-ctl(1), fl-install-demo(1), fl-record(1), fl-run-bench(1), fl-run-test(1).

AUTHOR

       Funkload was written by Benoit Delbosc.

       This manual page was written by Jose Parrella <bureado@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Debian Project							   26 March 2009						 FL-MONITOR-CTL(1)
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