Login or Register to Ask a Question and Join Our Community

Sponsored Content
Full Discussion: copy *. does not work in function
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 ?
 

10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting

1. Shell Programming and Scripting

Will the continue function work ????

I have written a script which does a following functions:- 1) Check a area if it is mounted or not 2) If the area is not mounted it will prompt the user to mount the are. 3) Once the area is mounted and the option is given as Y or y the script continues... My question is will the below... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kamlesh_p
2 Replies

2. Web Development

work with date function

hi, how can i can pass the value of unixformat to date/time? and how can i retrieve the day/month/year from a date? thanks a lot for your help ps:i using php (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: jasonx22
1 Replies

3. Programming

why printf() function don't go work?

I use FreeBSD,and use signal,like follows: signal(SIGHUP,sig_hup); signal(SIGIO,sig_io); when I run call following code,it can run,but I find a puzzled question,it should print some information,such as printf("execute main()") will print execute main(),but in fact,printf fuction print... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: konvalo
2 Replies

4. Shell Programming and Scripting

How to make copy work faster

I am trying to copy a folder which contains a list of C executables. It takes 2 mins for completion,where as the entire script takes only 3 more minutes for other process. Is there a way to copy the folder faster so that the performance of the script will improve? (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: prasperl
2 Replies

5. Shell Programming and Scripting

Cannot get grep to work within function.

Hello again, Am having an issue now with getting a simple grep command to work within a function.. The function is as below... function findRecord() { output=grep "001" recordDatabase echo $output } At the moment the "001"... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: U_C_Dispatj
3 Replies

6. Shell Programming and Scripting

How the Sleep function will work?

Hi All, I am new to Unix , there i am facing one problem with sleep command. that is .. in while loop i have defined sleep function .. my condition is like this while #i knew this is infinite loop do sleep 200 echo "hello " done. this condition will never become .. true... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: mandlysreedhar
3 Replies

7. Shell Programming and Scripting

Function doesn't work

Hello, and here's my problem: I can't get my function to do what I want. When I call my function get_from_A_to_F I give it an argument $remainder. I want my function to substitute a number higher than 9 to a specific letter. If the argument is equal to 10 than it should change it to "A".... (8 Replies)
Discussion started by: linas
8 Replies

8. Shell Programming and Scripting

Copy command does not work

I am new to this forum. I have a script which randomly throws error.Following are steps followed in this script: Generate Term file Remove previous term and rpt files from utility directory. copy term file to utility directory call sql to generate rpt file using term file as input copy the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: ann15
4 Replies

9. Shell Programming and Scripting

Flock preventing function to work

Hi i have a script that check pings and i use flock to so the script wont run multipul times : its not the whole script but this is the idea : ( flock -x -w 3 200 || exit 1 /usr/sbin/fping -c$count -i$interval -a $hosts > $FILE1 2>&1 ) 200>/var/lock/.myscript.exclusivelock now i... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: batchenr
4 Replies

10. OS X (Apple)

'time' does NOT work on a function in 'dash'.

Hi guys and gals... I am writing a piece of code that is dash compliant and came across this error. I have put it in the OSX section as that is what I am using. I have no idea what the 'dash' version is but was installed about 6 months ago. MBP, OSX 10.12.6, default terminal running dash on... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: wisecracker
4 Replies

LEARN ABOUT MINIX

backup

BACKUP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 BACKUP(8)

NAME

       backup - backup files

SYNOPSIS

       backup [-djmnorstvz] dir1 dir2

OPTIONS

       -d     At top level, only directories are backed up

       -j     Do not copy junk:  *.Z, *.bak, a.out, core, etc

       -m     If device full, prompt for new diskette

       -n     Do not backup top-level directories

       -o     Do not copy *.o files

       -r     Restore files

       -s     Do not copy *.s files

       -t     Preserve creation times

       -v     Verbose; list files being backed up

       -z     Compress the files on the backup medium

EXAMPLES

       backup -mz . /f0    # Backup current directory compressed

       backup /bin /usr/bin
			   # Backup bin from RAM disk to hard disk

DESCRIPTION

       Backup (recursively) backs up the contents of a given directory and its subdirectories to another part of the file system.  It has two typ-
       ical uses.  First, some portion of the file system can be backed up onto 1 or more diskettes.  When  a  diskette  fills	up,  the  user	is
       prompted for a new one.	The backups are in the form of mountable file systems.	Second, a directory on RAM disk can be backed up onto hard
       disk.  If the target directory is empty, the entire source directory is copied there, optionally compressed to save space.  If  the  target
       directory  is  an  old  backup,	only  those  files  in	the target directory that are older than similar names in the source directory are
       replaced.  Backup uses times for this purpose, like make.  Calling Backup as Restore is equivalent to using the -r  option;  this  replaces
       newer files in the target directory with older files from the source directory, uncompressing them if necessary.  The target directory con-
       tents are thus returned to some previous state.

SEE ALSO

       tar(1).

																	 BACKUP(8)
All times are GMT -4. The time now is 04:51 PM.
Unix & Linux Forums Content Copyright 1993-2022. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy