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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy files from multiple directories into one directory without overwriting them Post 302550761 by shoaibjameel123 on Saturday 27th of August 2011 03:34:14 AM
Old 08-27-2011
Copy files from multiple directories into one directory without overwriting them
I have several directories and all those directories have .dat files in them. I want to copy all those .dat files to one directory say "collected_directory"

The problem is I don't want to overwrite files. So, if two file names match, I don't want the old file to be overwritten with a new one.

I know how to copy files from multiple directories to one directory:

Code:
find <start directory> -iname "<all my file_type>" -exec cp {} <target_dir> \;

But how to handle the case where no overwrite occurs rather the same file names get a new name like abc_1.dat if abc.dat already exists in "collected_directory"?

I am using Linux with BASH.
 

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NAME

       dh_installexamples - install example files into package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installexamples [debhelperoptions] [-A] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION

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FILES

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	   Lists example files or directories to be installed.

OPTIONS

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	   Install any files specified by command line parameters in ALL packages acted on.

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AUTHOR

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