Pipes do not work that way. cp does not read from standard input, so there is no point piping into it.
Running them all in pipes means they will all be launched at the same time -- the cp will try to work before the file even exists.
If you're doing awk | grep | sed | cut | kitchen | sink, you might as well do it all in one simple awk command. It does a lot more than cutting columns.
Where is WAST.PSYSZ.N.WASTZFS1.TDEV mounted? That is where you need to copy it to, you can't feed the shell a //-style network address.
Hi all
I need to copy the entire contents of one file into an existing file at a specific location. I know the exact line number where I need to put it. It appears I would use either sed or awk to do this, but I have been unsuccessful so far:
File A
line 1
line 2
line 3
line 4
... (6 Replies)
Hi,
I have the following text file:
8 T1mapping_flip02 ok 128 108 30 1 665000-000008-000001.dcm
9 T1mapping_flip05 ok 128 108 30 1 665000-000009-000001.dcm
10 T1mapping_flip10 ok 128 108 30 1 665000-000010-000001.dcm
11 T1mapping_flip15 ok 128 108 30... (2 Replies)
hye there...
i have a problem to copy file in specific folder
that will change the name according to
host,time(%m%s) and date(%Y%M%D)
example folder name:
host_20100531.154101801
this folder name will always change...
but i just want to copy the AAA.txt and BBB.txt file..
really need... (17 Replies)
I have to find the specific formatted file is present in the received list in the directory, for which I have written:
file_list=`ls -lrt /tmp/vinay/act/files |grep "$cdate"| awk '{print $9}'`
while read fileStr
do
find $file_list $fileStr > /dev/null
status=`echo $?`
if ; then
... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am having couple of files which i used to copy from windows to Linux, so now in case of text files (CTRL^M) appears at end of line. I know i can convert this windows format file to unix format file by running dos2unix.
My requirement here is that i want to do it automatically using a... (5 Replies)
I hope this isn't as silly as it sounds from the title of the thread.
I have software that outputs files where the name starts with a real number followed by underscore as a prefix to an input file name. These will list in the directory with the file with the smallest real number prefix as the... (5 Replies)
This could be a really dummy question.
I have a log text file.
What unix command to extract line from specific string to another specific string.
Is it something similar to?:
more +/"string" file_name
Thanks (4 Replies)
I have to copy a particular file present in a main folder having part of the file-name present in many sub-folders to a new destination preserving the name of the source "part of the main folder" and previous file-name of the output file:
Example:
From /005_0/1000/005.xxx ->... (7 Replies)
Dear All,
I need to transfer all files present in one location to another but those files should be of specific extension like.
Find and copy all files of extension .xls, .pdf, .txt from location usr/tmp to location /per/Treat (6 Replies)