In POSIX shell, like bash or ksh you can do something like this:
The for construct will loop through the lines in the list, I put echo for you to see.
Put your copy/mv command here in xargs. The {} construct will be substituted with the actual names find command did find
You can run it without piping to xargs and see what exactly will happen, which files are found by find command.
I have a report file that is generated every day by a scheduled process.
Each day the file is written to a directory named .../blah_blah/Y07/MM-DD-YY/reportmmddyy.tab
I want to copy all of this reports to a separate directory without having to do it one by one.
However, if I try
cp... (3 Replies)
I'm looking for a easy way to do a recursive search through a directory structure for all files that begin with '.' that are group or other writable.
Any suggestions? (5 Replies)
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Copy this script to your path from where you want to search for all the files and directories in subdirectories recursively.
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code starts here... (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
I want to copy folder and sub folders only. I don't want the files. If i use cp -r command it will copy entirely with files.
Could any one suggest me.
Thanks in advance (1 Reply)
how can i copy those files into other directories have the same name but different in the end
i have files in directory called test:
10_10_asdadfsdfad.txt
10_10_11_asdawqefwkjasd.txt
10_10_11_12_asdafjjhoqwd.txt
i want to put them in exist directory thart i have on my system
i have... (1 Reply)
hi;
i need a script which will go to all directories and subdirectories and print the filenames as follow;
here i m printing only files listing in current directory
reason i m doing this is coz i want to perform some operations according to filename achieved so cant use find command;... (4 Replies)
Hello again.
Well, I need help again sooner as I thought. Now I want to search for files with a known name within all subdirs, and copy the to differently named files in the same directory.
For example if I had only one file to copy, I would just usecp fileName newFileNamebut to do this... (1 Reply)
Dear All,
I will appreciate any help received. Our system is running on hpux v1
My problem is as follows:
We have many customer folders with name fd000100, fd000101 and so on
e.g.
(Testrun)(testsqa):/>ll /TESTrun/fd000100
total 48
drwxrwx--- 2 fq000100 test 96 Jun 27 2004... (17 Replies)
Hi Guys,
I need to copy the files to respective directories based on name of the file. My script is something like below
con=$1
for file in `cat $con`
do
file_tmp=$(ls -t1 $path| grep -i $file | head -n 1)
echo $file_tmp
if
then
cp $path$file_tmp $DIR/ap
if
then... (16 Replies)