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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting arguments in bash Post 302582888 by elginmulizwa on Monday 19th of December 2011 01:42:07 AM
Old 12-19-2011
Network arguments in bash
This script moves all the doc files to a specified directory. I have managed to put an argument but the problem I am facing is putting the full path where the scripts are moving to, for example I want to run the script like this below

./loo -d then path where im moving the files (i.e ./loo -d the second argument where files are moving to)

i want to replace $To in the existing script with the command argument after -d ...
this code is not working i dont know why....

Code:
#!/bin/bash
From="/home/elg19/lone/doc"
To=$2

if [ $1 = -d ]; then
    cd "$From"
    for i in pdf txt doc; do
      find . -type f -name "*.${i}" -exec mv "{}" "$To" \;
    done
fi

Last edited by Franklin52; 12-19-2011 at 03:30 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags for code and data samples, thank you
 

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NAME

       rdeliver - Ruby mail filter script

SYNOPSYS

       rdeliver <options> [script]

DESCRIPTION

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USAGE

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DELIVERY SCRIPT

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CATASTROPHIC ERRORS

       The rdeliver script is very careful with errors.  If there is any problem, it logs the error to the log file you specify.  But  if  you	do
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