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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Moving folders with script Post 302393212 by zaxxon on Monday 8th of February 2010 07:05:28 AM
Old 02-08-2010
Do they have all one backup location or different ones? If only one then you can try something like this:

Code:
while read LINE; do cp -rp $LINE /backup_destination; done < my_list.txt

For this to work you need to cd to the directory where all those ids/users/folders are since in your list are only ids and not absolute paths, I guess.

You might also make sure first, that you have enough room at the backup destination. When everything is copied with errors, you can use similar while/read loop to empty (rm -rf) the old folders.

If you have different destinations/target, then you might want to use $LINE in combination with the backup path.
 

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