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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cp not dealing with variable properly? please help Post 302506266 by orochinagi on Saturday 19th of March 2011 04:15:32 PM
Old 03-19-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by pludi
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)
thank you so much for that advice! i cant believe how typos can manage to go unnoticed!

so i totally see your point,the destination directory doesn't exist. but what if the variable contains information about the directory itself. is the best plan of action to cut up the variable so we can extract the directory information e.g diff command? , then --> mkdir -p those directories before cp-ing the files?
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