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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy files on a list to another directory Post 302537725 by jaiseaugustine on Saturday 9th of July 2011 02:45:27 PM
Old 07-09-2011
Hi,
I didnt understand what is difficult in this.. I have a suggestion.

Code:
for file in `cat list_file `                          /* list_file contains the wav files you want to copy
 do 
 cp source_dir/$file new_dir
 done

 

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pilot-wav

pilot-wav(1)							    PILOT-LINK							      pilot-wav(1)

NAME

       pilot-wav - Decodes Palm Voice Memo files to wav files you can read on your desktop

SECTION

       pilot-link: Userland conduits

SYNOPSIS

	pilot-wav [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-?|--help] [-q|--quiet] [--usage] [-f|--fetch [file|all]] [-c|--convert  file]

OPTIONS

   pilot-wav options
			       -f, --fetch
			       [file|all]

       Fetch all wav files or specified wav file from the Palm.

			       -c, --convert
			       file.wav.pdb

       Convert file.wav.pdb file to wav

   Conduit Options
			       -p, --port
			       port

       Use  device  file  port to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-wav will look for the $PILOTPORT environment
       variable. If neither are found or supplied,  pilot-wav  will print the usage information.

			       -q, --quiet

       Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message

			       -v, --version

       Display version of pilot-wav.

   Help Options
			       -h, --help

       Display the help synopsis for pilot-wav.

			       --usage

       Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.

EXAMPLES

       # Fetch all of the voice memo files from your Palm and save them to .wav files on your desktop machine

		       pilot-wav -p /dev/pilot -f
			   MyVoiceMemo.wav.pdb

       # Convert all voice memos found in MyVoiceMemo to .wav files on your desktop machine

		       pilot-wav -c MyVoiceMemo.wav.pdb

AUTHOR

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       resolved  or  closed.  Reporting  bugs  via  email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to
       http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there.

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	pilot-link(7)

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