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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Recursively move directories along with files/specific files Post 302520238 by frintocf on Friday 6th of May 2011 08:10:05 AM

05-06-2011

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Sorry Bartus , It didnt work

Here is one other example which I have tried

/* This is the structure for abcd*/

$ ls -R /usr/bin/abcd
/usr/bin/abcd:
efgh fff1.log fff2.log fff3.log

/usr/bin/abcd/efgh:
fff4.log fff5.log

/* I am creating another directory called abcd1*/

$ mkdir /usr/bin/abcd1

/* Using your command , I am moving the *.log files from abcd to abcd1 ,including the directory structure ( sub directories ). As you can see , it fails with the output below */

$ find /usr/bin/abcd -name "*.log" | xargs -i bash -c "echo {} | cpio -pdmu /usr/bin/abcd1 ; rm -f {} "

0 blocks
0 blocks
0 blocks
0 blocks
0 blocks

if xargs is for passing the output then what is the usage -exec {} .Is there any difference between these two

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Hi Methyl ,

The information you asked for

Operating System uname -a

Linux blrlx232n1 2.6.16.60-0.21-smp #1 SMP Tue May 6 12:41:02 UTC 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

echo $SHELL

/bin/ksh

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NAME

       pipelog.conf - pipelog configuration for libpipelog.so of the plugins of gnome-system-log file

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/pipelog.conf

DESCRIPTION

       The libpipelog.so is a plugin for gnome-system-log(1), it runs commands through
	pipes and get the output of the individual pipe as a log content. Users can
	copy the file into $HOME/.gnome2/gnome-system-log/plugins/`uname -p` to
	overwrite the system default one.

       The syntax of pipelog.conf file is:
	    <log path><whitespace><command>

       <command>  may  be  a  simple  program name (which will be found in $PATH) or an absolute path of a binary with arguments list. "%s" can be
       included in <command> zero or one time, will be replaced by <log path> in runtime.

FILES

       /usr/lib/gnome-system-log/plugins/pipelog.conf
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	      The user specific configuration file for the plugin libpipelog.so

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SEE ALSO

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