This is untested, but you may want to try and adapt. It is dependent on files being unique (which should go without saying). Try:
Remove echo once you're happy with the results.
Filenames being unique is not enough; no file's name can be a trailing subset of another filename either. For example, if you have files angle.txt and triangle.txt somewhere under /app and there is a file named /update/angle.txt, the while loop will overwrite both files under /app with the contents of /update/angle.txt.
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Hi,
I need to find files in a directory, between dates like 4/15/06 and 5/02/06, and copy them to a different directory. Is there a way to doa find and a copy together?
Thanks,
Neil (1 Reply)
I am trying to search for files and copy them into a text file. Can anybody help me how to do that.
find /test/sds/data -name "*.*" -mtime -365 -exec ls -altr {} \
this is my find command and want to copy the result to a file. (2 Replies)
Hi Gang, I am an old unix user and just recently returned in the flavor of a Mac. I have tons of pictures in the .orf format and would like to write a script to:
Search the Hard drives for that file type
Then, depending on date, copy it to a specific folder
If there is an exact... (2 Replies)
Ok i have three directories
Destination - /u/dir1 (has subdirectories dir2 which also has subdirectory dir3)
Source1 - /u/test/files/dir1/dir2/dir3
Source2 - /u/out/images/dir1/dir2/dir3
What i would like to do is copy everything from Source1 and Source2 into the Destination directory.... (3 Replies)
I must write any shell script.
I want find files which have .txt extension and then copy them to other, whithout this extension, for example:
I found linux.out.txt file, and now it must be copy to new, linux.out.
So: linux.out.txt -> linux.out
ubuntu.config.txt -> ubuntu.config
... (4 Replies)
I entered the following command
find . -type f \( -newer startdate -a ! -newer enddate \) -exec cp tmp {} \;
I got the following error:
cp: 0653-436 tmp is a directory.
Specify -r or -R to copy.
What's happening here? (2 Replies)
> Advice please as much as possible to fill in large file in various folder to the server
> Folder structure
/www/1.org/htdocs
/www/2.org/htdocs
/www/3.org/htdocs
> Can tell me there is a way to fill in large file into htdocs, and then climb
> In each Diru and load for a long time. Thank you (1 Reply)
RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4
I have some files with the extension .cdp in several directories in various mountpoints(filesystems) . I would like to find and copy all these files into a single directory /u03/diagnore/data.
How can I do this ? (3 Replies)
Hi ,
As i am a dummy in shell scripting ,i was trying to find the files which are created today and hold them in variable and the copy them to a location using a partcular command this is what did. can any one help.There may be many files under the path
SOURCE=/path/to/files/
A= find... (1 Reply)
I am trying to copy only the date specific folders/directories using the following command. However, the following copy command is also copying files from the root folder (OriginalFolder).
find /OriginalFolder/ -type -d \{ -mtime 1 -o -mtime 2 \ } -exec cp -R {} /CopyTo/'hostname'__CopyTo/ \;... (2 Replies)
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rdup-up
RDUP-UP(1) rdup RDUP-UP(1)NAME
rdup-up - update a directory tree with a rdup archive
SYNOPSIS
rdup-up [OPTION]... DIRECTORY
DESCRIPTION
With rdup-up you can update an (possibly) existing directory structure with a rdup archive.
The rdup archive has to be given to rdup-up's standard input.
Username and uids
rdup outputs both the username and uid, the receiving system (which may be a totally different system) checks if the username and uid
match. If the username and uid don't match the (numeric) uid is used on the file. The same holds true for the groupname and gid.
OPTIONS -n Do a dry-run and do not create anything on disk.
-t Create DIRECTORY (ala mkdir -p) if it does not exist.
-s N Strip N path components from a pathname. If the resulting pathname is empty after this operation it is skipped. Be careful however
with the following structure:
/foo
/foo/bar
/foo/bar/bla.txt
/foo/blork/bla.txt
With rdup-up -s2 this will leave:
<empty>
<empty>
/bla.txt
/bla.txt
And the last 'bla.txt' will overwrite the previous one, this will happen without warnings.
-r PATH
This option is related to the -s option, but works different. The string PATH is removed from (the beginning of) each pathname. With
-r /home/backup the pathname /home/backup/bin/mycmd becomes /bin/mycmd. The same could be done with -s 2, but then you need to count
the slashes. Note -s is always performed before -r.
-v Be more verbose and echo the processed files to standard output.
-vv Be even more verbose and echo processed file and the uid and gid information to standard output.
-T Show a table of contents of the rdup stream received (ala tar -tf -). With -T the directory argument is optional. -T unsets any
verbose (-v) options.
-h A short help message.
-V Show the version.
EXIT CODE
rdup-up return a zero exit code on success, otherwise 1 is returned.
AUTHOR
Written by Miek Gieben.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <miek@miek.nl>.
SEE ALSO
http:/www.miek.nl/projects/rdup/ is the main site of rdup. Also see rdup(1), rdup-tr(1) and rdup-backups(7).
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2010 Miek Gieben. This is free software. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
Licensed under the GPL version 3. See the file LICENSE in the source distribution of rdup.
1.1.11 13 Dec 2008 RDUP-UP(1)