Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: Copy files gives "cp: omitting directory" error
Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy files gives "cp: omitting directory" error Post 302335458 by guruprasadpr on Sunday 19th of July 2009 12:19:54 PM
Old 07-19-2009
cp can do copy from multiple sources, but not to multiple destinations. In this case, it takes the first 2 arguments as sources, and the last done as destination. Since the second argument is a directory, cp needs "-R' option to copy.
This User Gave Thanks to guruprasadpr For This Post:
curiosity
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Restoring back files from "lost+found" directory

Hi Friends, How can I Restore the Files present under "lost+found" Directory of a FileSystem (in Solaris & Tru64 OS) to their original Locations. Now-a-days I am loosing lots of files in 2 of my Machines, One running Solaris8 and other Tru64(Digital) Unix. Thanx in... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: dhasarath
1 Replies

2. Shell Programming and Scripting

Error to "find" a matching array element in a directory

Hi, I have defined an array which holds a couple of elements which are nothing but files names. I want to find the files in a directory for the matching file name(array elements) with less than 1 day old. When I am trying to execute the code (as below), it gives an error. Your help in this... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: mkbaral
1 Replies

3. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

Why is wget copying my directory tree with some files with "@"?

I'm using wget 1.11.4 on Cygwin 1.5.25. I'm trying to recursively download a directory tree, which is the root of a javadoc tree. This is approximately the command line I tried: wget -x -p -r http://<host>/.../apidoc When it finished, it seemed like it downloaded... (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: dkarr
0 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete files older than "x" if directory size is greater than "y"

I wrote a script to delete files which are older than "x" days, if the size of the directory is greater than "y" #!/bin/bash du -hs $1 while read SIZE ENTRY do if ; then find $1 -mtime +$2 -exec rm -f {} \; echo "Files older than $2 days deleted" else echo "free Space available"... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: JamesCarter
4 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

"Join" or "Merge" more than 2 files into single output based on common key (column)

Hi All, I have working (Perl) code to combine 2 input files into a single output file using the join function that works to a point, but has the following limitations: 1. I am restrained to 2 input files only. 2. Only the "matched" fields are written out to the "matched" output file and... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: Katabatic
1 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

awk command to replace ";" with "|" and ""|" at diferent places in line of file

Hi, I have line in input file as below: 3G_CENTRAL;INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL;SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL My expected output for line in the file must be : "1-Radon1-cMOC_deg"|"LDIndex"|"3G_CENTRAL|INDONESIA_(M)_TELKOMSEL"|LAST|"SPECIAL_WORLD_GRP_7_FA_2_TELKOMSEL" Can someone... (7 Replies)
Discussion started by: shis100
7 Replies

7. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

getting error "ssh-copy-id: not found"

Hello, i am trying to make an ssh connection from one server to another and invoke a script on another server. while doing this i want to do a passwordless ssh connection for the same, for which i have used the following command ssh-keygen -t rsa ssh-copy-id -i... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: arwant
3 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Delete all log files older than 10 day and whose first string of the first line is "MSH" or "<?xml"

Dear Ladies & Gents, I have a requirement to delete all the log files in /var/log/test directory that are older than 10 days and their first line begin with "MSH" or "<?xml" or "FHS". I've put together the following BASH script, but it's erroring out: for filename in $(find /var/log/test... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: Hiroshi
2 Replies

9. OS X (Apple)

Copy files between partitions with "without auto-mount" option enabled - possible?

Hello, fellow Unixers and Macers, I'll run several OS X versions each on its own dedicated partition. Partitions won't be seeing each other (by editing fstab). Question: will I be able to copy files between those partitions? Partition #1: Mavericks. Partition #2: HighSierra (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: scrutinizerix
2 Replies

10. AIX

Apache 2.4 directory cannot display "Last modified" "Size" "Description"

Hi 2 all, i have had AIX 7.2 :/# /usr/IBMAHS/bin/apachectl -v Server version: Apache/2.4.12 (Unix) Server built: May 25 2015 04:58:27 :/#:/# /usr/IBMAHS/bin/apachectl -M Loaded Modules: core_module (static) so_module (static) http_module (static) mpm_worker_module (static) ... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: penchev
3 Replies

LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

path2listing

PATH2LISTING(1) 					      General Commands Manual						   PATH2LISTING(1)

NAME

       path2listing - script facilitating the conversion to managing gconf configuration sources with desktop-profiles

SYNOPSIS

       path2listing [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This  script  takes  a single gconf path file (the systemwide one, i.e. /etc/gconf/2/path, when not told otherwise) and reads through it in
       order to create an ordered list of known configuration sources (it will recurse into  included  path  files  when  necessary).  Using  that
       ordered	list  it  will	then  create a desktop-profiles_path2listing.listing file containing metadata for all known configuration sources,
       assigning a precedence value to each encountered configuration source so that:

	      a) the order of sources is the same

	      b) there is space between the precedence values of the various sources to allow for inclusion of additional profiles in the future.

	      c) all mandatory sources have a positive precedence value, and all non-mandatory sources have a negative precedence value

       In addition to generating the desktop-profiles_path2listing.listing file, this script will also replace the converted path file by one that
       assumes	that  desktop-profiles	manages  all configuration sources (NOTE: a backup copy of all changed files is made, so you can always go
       back to the previous situation).

OPTIONS

       -d,--distance

	      distance between the precedence values of each successive pair of configuration sources (defaults to 50), the idea  being  that  you
	      leave some space to insert future sources.

       -f, --file

	      path file to convert (defaults to /etc/gconf/2/path)

       -h, --help

	      display the help message

       -o, --output-file

	      file to put the generated metadata in (defaults to /etc/desktop-profiles/desktop-profiles_path2listing.listing). If this file exists
	      a backup copy will be made prior to overwriting it.

       --no-replace-file

	      don't replace the path file we're converted with one assuming desktop-profiles manages activation

FILES

       /etc/gconf/2/path - systemwide gconf path file, default path file to convert

       /etc/desktop-profiles/desktop-profiles_path2listing.listing - default name for the file containing the generated metadata

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Bart Cornelis <cobaco@skolelinux.no>.

SEE ALSO

       desktop-profiles(7)

desktop-profiles						   May 07, 2005 						   PATH2LISTING(1)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 07:13 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy