06-29-2010
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Originally Posted by
sholay
Hi,
I am a newbie in shell scripting. I have to copy a particular sub-directory (data) from a large no. of directories (all in the same folder) and paste them to another directory ( /home/hubble/data ) and then rename all the subdirectories (data) as the name of its parent directory.
please help. Its urgent. Thank you in advance.
can you provide us more info about the sub-directories and give a sample of them? And Besides how u want to rename them?
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