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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Copy all files in 1 directory to another usinge for-in loop Post 302503237 by homeboy on Thursday 10th of March 2011 03:59:37 AM
Old 03-10-2011
At first,you need to know weather $file is a regular file or directory.
Code:
  1 #! /bin/bash
  2 
  3 dest=$1
  4 for i in `ls -a1`;do
  5    [[ -d $i ]] && cp -r $i $dest && continue
  6    cp $i $dest
  7 done

 

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