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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cp not dealing with variable properly? please help Post 302506264 by pludi on Saturday 19th of March 2011 03:58:48 PM
Old 03-19-2011
The cp fails simply because the target directory doesn't exist & cp won't create it, you'll have to mkdir it first. basename fails because you have a typo in the variable ($desitination instead of $destination)
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