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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Copy all files in 1 directory to another usinge for-in loop Post 302503224 by Trinimini on Thursday 10th of March 2011 02:32:43 AM
Old 03-10-2011
Copy all files in 1 directory to another usinge for-in loop
I was looking to get some help with copying files in one directory to another using a for-in loop. My script file is called copyfile and here is what I have:
Code:
for file in $(ls -a $1)
do
    cp $file ~/dir-2 
done

When I run copyfile dir-1 this is what I get

Code:
cp: omitting directory `.'
cp: omitting directory `..'
cp: cannot stat `abc': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `def': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file1': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file2': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file3': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file4': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file5': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `file6': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ghi': No such file or directory

Thanks in advance!

---------- Post updated at 02:32 AM ---------- Previous update was at 02:13 AM ----------

I think I may have actually solved the issue myself. It seems to work when I put

Code:
for file in $(ls -a $1)
do
     cp $1/$file dir-2
done

I would appreciate it if someone could tell me how I'd be able to copy directories and files both.
Last edited by Yogesh Sawant; 03-10-2011 at 04:44 AM.. Reason: added code tags
 

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NAME

       ftw.h, ftw - file tree traversal

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ftw.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <ftw.h> header defines the FTW structure that includes the following members:

       int base
       int level

       The <ftw.h> header defines macros for use as values of  the third argument to the application-supplied function that is	passed as the sec-
       ond argument to ftw() and nftw() (see ftw(3C)):

       FTW_F	       file

       FTW_D	       directory

       FTW_DNR	       directory without read permission

       FTW_DP	       directory with subdirectories visited

       FTW_NS	       unknown type; stat() failed

       FTW_SL	       symbolic link

       FTW_SLN	       symbolic link that names a nonexistent file

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       FTW_PHYS        Physical walk, does not follow symbolic links. Otherwise, nftw() follows links but does not walk down any path that crosses
		       itself.

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