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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cp -p /home/* home/exp/*.date not working please help Post 302501219 by Corona688 on Thursday 3rd of March 2011 02:16:58 AM
Old 03-03-2011
I'm still not completely sure I understand what you want. You're copying multiple directories into one destination directory, but need to rename the directories in the process? You can't put a * in the destination like that, this isn't like DOS: The shell splits * for you before cp is even run, so you end up inputting stuff into cp that doesn't make sense if you * for things that don't exist yet.

I think you're going to have to split it into seperate cp calls.

Code:
for DIR in /home/*
do
        # Don't copy exp into exp/exp-timestamp!  It'd copy the copied copy copies!
        [ "$DIR" == "/home/exp" ] && continue

        NAME=`basename "$DIR"`
        cp -p "/home/${NAME}" "/home/exp/`date`-${NAME}"
done

Last edited by Corona688; 03-03-2011 at 05:30 PM.. Reason: missing backtick
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createhomedir(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					  createhomedir(1)

NAME

     createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer.

SYNOPSIS

     createhomedir [-scbalh] [-n directoryDomainName] [-u username]

DESCRIPTION

     createhomedir provides several options for creating and populating home directories.

OPTIONS

     -s       creates home directories for server home paths only (default).

     -c       creates home directories for local home paths only.

     -b       creates home directories for both server and local home paths.

     -a       creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path.

     -l       creates home directories for users defined in the local directory domain.

     -n directoryDomainName
	      creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path.

     -u username
	      creates a home directory for a specific user defined in the domain(s) identified in the -a, -l, or -n parameter. If you omit the -a,
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     -i       reads username list from standard input and creates specified home directories. Each username should be on its own line.

     -h       usage help.

FILES

     /usr/sbin/createhomedir			   location of tool

CAVEATS

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