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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying files with spaces in the filename in a for loop Post 302597447 by Scrutinizer on Friday 10th of February 2012 10:38:35 AM
Old 02-10-2012
The trouble is grep -Eo '[0-9]{3,4} wil also match the numbers after the /
This can also be done with plain shell:

Code:
while IFS="-/" read x cam x
do
  while read file
  do 
    case $file in
       *$cam*) cp "$file" cameras
    esac
  done < list3
done < list2

But this reads list3 multiple times. This would be more efficient for example:

Code:
while IFS="-/" read x cam x
do
  cameras="$cameras $cam"
done < list2

while read file
do 
  for cam in $cameras
  do
    case $file in
      *$cam*) cp "$file" cameras
    esac
  done
done < list3

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 02-10-2012 at 11:45 AM..
 

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