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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need a shell script which takes two inputs and copy the files from one directory to other Post 302624423 by methyl on Monday 16th of April 2012 08:47:51 AM
Old 04-16-2012
In the syntax you post, $1 would refer to the name of a file from which you want to read the contents into the input stream in the script. This is not correct.

In your case I think that $1 contains a filename (or directory name) which you want to check whether it exist - and if it does, copy the file (or directory) to the user's home directory.
What is not clear is what happens when the parameter is a directory? Is the script going to attempt to copy that directory and all its contents or just copy the directory file?



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Need a shell script which takes two inputs and copy the files from one directory to other
All your examples there is only one input - $1 .
 

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