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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 302624449 by muraliinfy04 on Monday 16th of April 2012 09:25:47 AM
Old 04-16-2012
Hi,
thanks for the response.

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--your statment is correct and if the mentioned directory or file does not exist it should throw an error message

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-------Requirement here is even if it is a directory it should traverse through the subdirctories and copy the subdirectories along with the files to the present directory or to the given input directory say /export/home/user1.i guess that point is not present in the script.

Let me know is this the info u r looking at?

 

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