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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find and copy script trouble Post 302531075 by acheron on Wednesday 15th of June 2011 10:23:54 PM
Old 06-15-2011
Computer find and copy script trouble
Hi guys

First thing to say is that I am entirely new to Shell Scripting and am trying to write a script to do something I thought would be relatively simple, but has escaped me.

Essentially, I want to take file name information from a list, find the files listed and then copy the results into an output directory. As a standard command line I use this:
Code:
for i in `cat example_list` ; do find . -name "$i" | xargs -i rsync -Rruv {} /detination_directory/; done

This is fine, but a bit difficult to explain to new users of Linux, so I was looking to simplify this into a script

eg:

search_copy_list [which list] [output dir]

I have had a look around, but the fundamental basics are escaping me, I can't seem to find any help on how to index the list to find the files.

If anyone could help, that would be awesome because I'm missing something here.

Thanks

Adrian
Last edited by Franklin52; 06-16-2011 at 03:49 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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hal-find

hal-find(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      hal-find(1M)

NAME

       hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list

SYNOPSIS

       hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help]
	[--verbose] [--version]

       hal-find-by-property  --key key --string value [--help]
	[--verbose] [--version]

DESCRIPTION

       The  hal-find  commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci-
       fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as  volume  or  block.  hal-
       find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --capability capability	  HAL device capability to search for.

       --help			  Display list of options.

       --key key		  The key to the property that is the basis of the search.

       --string value		  The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search.

       --verbose		  Verbose mode.

       --version		  Display version and exit.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWhalr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Volatile			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5)

SunOS 5.11							    22 Aug 2006 						      hal-find(1M)
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