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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting One file in to one directory using a for loop Post 302791541 by os2mac on Monday 8th of April 2013 04:36:12 PM
Old 04-08-2013
One file in to one directory using a for loop
So I have several files:

Code:
1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt

and several directories:
Code:
one two three four

I want to put one file in one directory, thusly:

Code:
1.txt to /one
2.txt to /two
3.txt to /three
4.txt to /four

but I want to use a for loop to do something like this:

Code:
!#/usr/bin/bash
file=(1.txt 2.txt 3.txt 4.txt)
dir=(one two three four)

for i in ${file[@]};do
        cp $i ${dir[@]}
        done

This will obviously attempt to put EVERY file in EVERY directory. How would I limit it as stated above?

Thanks,
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       With rdup-up you can update an (possibly) existing directory structure with a rdup archive.

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