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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find list of files from a list and copy to a directory Post 302352710 by dr.house on Sunday 13th of September 2009 02:33:58 AM
Old 09-13-2009
One way:
Code:
cat filenames.list | \
while read FILENAME
do
  find . -name "$FILENAME" -exec cp '{}' new_dir\;
done

 

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GCSTAR(1)							Linux User's Manual							 GCSTAR(1)

NAME
GCstar - Personal collection manager SYNOPSIS
gcstar [-u UPDATE-OPTIONS] [-x EXECUTE-OPTIONS] [FILENAME] DESCRIPTION
GCstar is a Gtk2 program used to manage personal collections. OPTIONS
Without any option, it will open FILENAME if specified or the previously opened file. There are also two groups of options. UPDATE-OPTIONS -u, --update Tell GCstar to look for available updates -a, --all Update all components -c, --collection Update collection models -w, --website Update plugins to download information -i, --import Update plugins to import data -e, --export Update plugins to export data -l, --lang Update translations -n, --noproxy Don't ask for a proxy EXECUTE-OPTIONS -x, --execute Enter non-interactive mode -c, --collection MODEL Specify the collection type -w, --website PLUGIN Specify the plugin to use to download information -i, --import PLUGIN Specify the plugin to use to import a collection -e, --export PLUGIN Specify the plugin to use to export the collection -f, --fields FILENAME File containing fields list to use for import/export -o, --output FILENAME Write output in FILENAME instead of standard output --download TITLE Search for the item with TITLE as name --importprefs PREFERENCES Preferences for the import plugin --exportprefs PREFERENCES Preferences for the export plugin Preferences for import/export plugins are specified using this schema Key1=>Value1,Key2=>Value2 ENVIRONMENT
HOME Used to define following variables if needed XDG_CONFIG_HOME Where configuration files should be stored. If not defined: $HOME/.config XDG_DATA_HOME Where some data will be stored. If not defined: $HOME/.local/share BUGS REPORTING
To report bugs, please use this forum: http://forums.gcstar.org/viewforum.php?id=4 AUTHORS
Tian <tian@c-sait.net> http://www.gcstar.org/ GCstar 17 August 2006 GCSTAR(1)
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