You didn't do anything wrong exactly, but there were just too many filenames to cram into one cp call. Handling that many filenames gets a bit more complicated. Too many arguments is too many arguments -- ls kl* or any other variations like that won't work either. You'll need to print a full listing with ls, filter what you want with grep, and read in a loop. Put them through a stream so we can read them one at a time in other words, instead of trying to cram them all into one line.
Notice how grep takes a different kind of expression than you'd do in the shell. It doesn't match the entire line, it can match part of the line anywhere, so we have to stick a ^ in the front to tell it "only look for kl at the beginning of the line". And we don't have to match the rest of it since knowing it has a 'kl' in front is good enough.
Then we read lines one by one and feed them into cp one by one. Remove the 'echo' once you've tested it and are sure it does what you want.
Hi all,
Would like to rename all files using wildcards - if at all possible!
As an example I have the following files:
Nov01_df
Nov02_df
Nov03_df
......
Nov28_df
Nov29_df
Nov30_df
I'd like to have these renamed as "df??" where ?? is the number from the original file name.
Any... (5 Replies)
How do I use cat (presumably with a sh script) to combine all the files in a directory without listing them individually.
Thank you for your patience with this very elementary question.:) (3 Replies)
hi
I want to copy all files from the current directory and move to .archive file.
Moreover,I want to add .bak to each file name, that will be copied.
How can I do that? (4 Replies)
I am userB and have a dir
/temp1
This dir is owned by me.
How do I recursively copy files from another users's dir userA?
I need to preserve the original user who created files, original group information, original create date, mod date etc.
I tried
cp -pr /home/userA/* .
... (2 Replies)
Hi All
I am having hundred over file in the below pattern.
AA050101.INI
BB090101.INI
.
.
ZX980101.INI
Need to rename these files with an extension .bak
AA050101.INI.bak
BB090101.INI.bak
.
.
ZX980101.INI.bak (5 Replies)
I have a question regarding Perl scripting.
If I want to say open files that all look like this and assign them to a filehandle and then assign the filehandle to a variable, how do I do this?
The file names are
strand1.fa.gz.tmp
strand2.fa.gz.tmp
strand3.fa.gz.tmp
strand4.fa.gz.tmp
...... (6 Replies)
Hi All,
I'm trying to list some files from my log directory
and files are like this
log.20110302_20.gz
log.20110302_21.gz
log.20110302_22.gz
log.20110302_23.gz
log.20110303_00.gz
log.20110303_01.gz
log.20110303_02.gz
............
log.20110311_22.gz
log.20110311_23.gz... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am doing this for svn patch making. I got the list of files to make the patch. I have the list in a file with path of all the files.
To Do
From Directory : /myproject/MainDir
To Directory : /myproject/data
List of files need to copy is in the file: /myproject/filesList.txt
... (4 Replies)
All,
I need to grab and rename common files from several unique directory structures. For example, the directory structures looks like:
/unique_dir/common/common/common/person_name_dir/common_file.txt
There are over 90,000 of these text files that I'd like to put in a single directory as... (5 Replies)
I'm trying to do this exact same thing, so far I have created this to move files
i've named my script CP.sh
#!/bin/bash
cd /root/my-documents/NewDir/
for f in *.doc
do cp -v $f root/my-documents/NewDir $f{%.doc}
done
When i go to run this in the console i type, bin/sh/ CP.sh
but it... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
grep
grep(1) General Commands Manual grep(1)Name
grep, egrep, fgrep - search file for regular expression
Syntax
grep [option...] expression [file...]
egrep [option...] [expression] [file...]
fgrep [option...] [strings] [file]
Description
Commands of the family search the input files (standard input default) for lines matching a pattern. Normally, each line found is copied
to the standard output.
The command patterns are limited regular expressions in the style of which uses a compact nondeterministic algorithm. The command patterns
are full regular expressions. The command uses a fast deterministic algorithm that sometimes needs exponential space. The command pat-
terns are fixed strings. The command is fast and compact.
In all cases the file name is shown if there is more than one input file. Take care when using the characters $ * [ ^ | ( ) and in the
expression because they are also meaningful to the Shell. It is safest to enclose the entire expression argument in single quotes ' '.
The command searches for lines that contain one of the (new line-separated) strings.
The command accepts extended regular expressions. In the following description `character' excludes new line:
A followed by a single character other than new line matches that character.
The character ^ matches the beginning of a line.
The character $ matches the end of a line.
A . (dot) matches any character.
A single character not otherwise endowed with special meaning matches that character.
A string enclosed in brackets [] matches any single character from the string. Ranges of ASCII character codes may be abbreviated
as in `a-z0-9'. A ] may occur only as the first character of the string. A literal - must be placed where it can't be mistaken as
a range indicator.
A regular expression followed by an * (asterisk) matches a sequence of 0 or more matches of the regular expression. A regular
expression followed by a + (plus) matches a sequence of 1 or more matches of the regular expression. A regular expression followed
by a ? (question mark) matches a sequence of 0 or 1 matches of the regular expression.
Two regular expressions concatenated match a match of the first followed by a match of the second.
Two regular expressions separated by | or new line match either a match for the first or a match for the second.
A regular expression enclosed in parentheses matches a match for the regular expression.
The order of precedence of operators at the same parenthesis level is the following: [], then *+?, then concatenation, then | and new
line.
Options-b Precedes each output line with its block number. This is sometimes useful in locating disk block numbers by context.
-c Produces count of matching lines only.
-e expression
Uses next argument as expression that begins with a minus (-).
-f file Takes regular expression (egrep) or string list (fgrep) from file.
-i Considers upper and lowercase letter identical in making comparisons and only).
-l Lists files with matching lines only once, separated by a new line.
-n Precedes each matching line with its line number.
-s Silent mode and nothing is printed (except error messages). This is useful for checking the error status (see DIAGNOSTICS).
-v Displays all lines that do not match specified expression.
-w Searches for an expression as for a word (as if surrounded by `<' and `>'). For further information, see only.
-x Prints exact lines matched in their entirety only).
Restrictions
Lines are limited to 256 characters; longer lines are truncated.
Diagnostics
Exit status is 0 if any matches are found, 1 if none, 2 for syntax errors or inaccessible files.
See Alsoex(1), sed(1), sh(1)grep(1)