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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying files to a directory Post 302309979 by #moveon on Thursday 23rd of April 2009 11:01:11 AM
Old 04-23-2009
Copying files to a directory
Hi I have a few questions. I am trying to copy a file to a directory. I need to copy files that do not end in numbers, for example, into a directory. This is what I tried so far. cp filename[!1-9] directorytowhereIwannacopy but it says it can't copy to a directory. I need to copy many files into one directory.

My other question is how do you get back to the directory you changed from? You changed into a directory but how do you go back from it? Finally, is there a way you can write a string into many files using just one single command?

Thanks in advance.
 

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socialtext::resting::localcopy

Socialtext::Resting::LocalCopy(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		       Socialtext::Resting::LocalCopy(3pm)

NAME

       Socialtext::Resting::LocalCopy - Maintain a copy on disk of a workspace

SYNOPSIS

       Socialtext::Resting::LocalCopy allows one to copy a workspace into files on the local disk, and to update a workspace from files on disk.

METHODS

   new
       Create a new LocalCopy object.  Requires a "rester" parameter, which should be a Socialtext::Rester-like object.

   pull
       Reads a workspace and pulls all of the pages into files in the specified directory.  Options are passed in as a list of named options:

       dir - The directory the files should be saved to.
       tag - an optional tag.  If specified, only tagged files will be pulled.

   push
       Reads a directory and pushes all the files in that directory up to the specified workspace.  Options are passed in as a list of named
       options:

       dir - The directory the files should be saved to.
       tag - an optional tag.  If specified, only tagged files will be pushed.
	   Note - tag is not yet implemented.

BUGS

       Attachments are not yet supported.  Push by tag is not yet supported.

AUTHOR

       Luke Closs, "<luke.closs at socialtext.com>"

COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE
       Copyright 2007 Luke Closs, all rights reserved.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.10.1							    2009-01-09				       Socialtext::Resting::LocalCopy(3pm)
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