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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Ls to find to copy Post 302868795 by Don Cragun on Monday 28th of October 2013 08:14:57 PM
Old 10-28-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
This is untested, but you may want to try and adapt. It is dependent on files being unique (which should go without saying). Try:
Code:
cd /update
ls -1 >newfiles
find /app >allfiles
grep -f newfiles allfiles | while read FN; do echo cp "${FN##*/}" "$FN"; done

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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