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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting copy specific files and count them - not as easy as it seems! Post 302515510 by Yamaha Evans on Wednesday 20th of April 2011 09:18:38 AM
Old 04-20-2011
Thanks, bash-o-logist!
I tried your solution, but was getting an error on line 3 of the shopt command.

My overall script asks the user for a source path, and a destination path, then reads file from the source and writes to the destination. I tried to use cp before, but since several of the source paths contain blank spaces, I was getting errors because cp couldn't interpret the space.

Ultimately, I'll be expanding my script to allow for capturing other types of files too, with a count for each file type. That's mainly why I was trying to accomplish this using the method I posted as line 20 previously.
 

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tee

tee(1)								   User Commands							    tee(1)

NAME

       tee - replicate the standard output

SYNOPSIS

       tee [-ai] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  tee  utility  will	copy  standard	input to standard output, making a copy in zero or more files. tee will not buffer its output. The
       options determine if the specified files are overwritten or appended to.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported.

       -a	Appends the output to the files rather than overwriting them.

       -i	Ignores interrupts.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       file	A path name of an output file.	Processing of at least 13 file operands will be supported.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of tee when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables that affect the execution of tee: LANG,  LC_ALL,	LC_CTYPE,  LC_MES-
       SAGES, and NLSPATH.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	The standard input was successfully copied to all output files.

       >0	The number of files that could not be opened or whose status could not be obtained.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |Enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), attributes(5), environ(5), largefile(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.10							    20 Dec 1996 							    tee(1)
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