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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting cp -v command usage? Post 302575730 by gameinn on Tuesday 22nd of November 2011 04:08:30 PM
Old 11-22-2011
If I take away the second ; it now gives me

"syntax error near unexpected token ')'

My actual code is,

Code:
s) cp -i -v ~/files/* ~/backups/oldfiles/; > ~/logs/logfile.log

^ It is part of a case statement
 

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