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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copy list of files from a keyword list to another directory Post 302646747 by twjolson on Friday 25th of May 2012 03:38:21 PM
Old 05-25-2012
Copy list of files from a keyword list to another directory

Hello,

I have a folder with a massive amount of files, and I want to copy out a specific subset of the files to a new directory. I would like to use a text file with the filenames listed, but can't get it to work.

The thing I'm hung up on is that the folder names in the path can and do have spaces in them. Thus "2010-36 Olson" gets broken up into "2010-36" and "Olson".

Here is what I have thus far.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

kw=$1
dest=$2

while read ifile
	do		
		echo "cp $ifile $dest/$ifile"
	done < $kw

 

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CPP(1)							      General Commands Manual							    CPP(1)

NAME
cpp - C language preprocessor SYNOPSIS
cpp [ option ... ] [ ifile [ ofile ] ] DESCRIPTION
Cpp interprets ANSI C preprocessor directives and does macro substitution. The input ifile and output ofile default to standard input and standard output respectively. The options are: -Dname -Dname=def -Idir Same as in 2c(1). -M Generate no output except a list of include files in a form suitable for specifying dependencies to mk(1). Use twice to list files in angle brackets. -N Turn off default include directories. All must be specified with -I. Without this option, /$objtype/include and /sys/include are used as the last two searched directories for include directives, where $objtype is read from the environment. -V Print extra debugging information. -+ Understand C++ comments. The output file contains processed text sprinkled with lines that show the original input line numbering: #line linenumber "ifile" The input language is as described in the ANSI C standard. The C compilers do not use cpp; they contain their own simple but adequate pre- processor, so cpp is usually superfluous. FILES
/sys/include directory for machine-independent include files /$objtype/include directory for machine-dependent include files SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/cpp SEE ALSO
2c(1) CPP(1)
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