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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers copy *. does not work in function Post 302550606 by greet_sed on Friday 26th of August 2011 09:47:55 AM
Old 08-26-2011
copy *. does not work in function
Hi,

I want to copy a file/directory ( recursively , if needed) and if destination directory does not exist create it ( with parent directory, if needed).

Code:
 funcopy () {
if [ -d "$2" ]; then 
echo "$2 exists , copying files"
cp -r "$1" "$2"
else
echo "Directory does not exist;Create directory"
mkdir -p $2
echo "copy files"
cp -r "$1" "$2"
fi
}

This works as expected when i try to copy a file or directory.
If i try with *.xml or *. options, it throws error.

Code:
$ ls *.xml
a.xml meld.xml
$ funcopy *.xml /home/$USER/Desktop/ABC
mkdir: cannot create directory `meld.xml': File exists
copy file a.xml to meld.xml

Here it replaces a.xml content to meld.xml and it did not create directory ABC under Desktop to copy.

Can someone please explain why it happens ? How i can avoid it ?
 

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