Refer to man cp for why the command is not working.
In short, If you provide two argument to "cp", it would copy the first file (arg1) to the second file (arg2) but If you provide more then two arg (your case), it expects the last arg to be a directory to copy all the files inside that directory. In this case, "123" is a file hence error.
Hi I'm in the need of a script that basically takes two files and generates a 3rd. It reads from fileA and fileB and copies lines from fileA if they start by a word of fileB.
for example
fileA
The dog is beautful
Where is your cat
Why are you sad?
Help me!
fileB
The
Where
tree
dog... (4 Replies)
We have 2 file XML files - FILE1.XML and FILE2.xml - we need copy the contents of FILE1.XML and replace in FILE2.xml pattern "<assignedAttributeList></assignedAttributeList>"
FILE1.XML
1. <itemList>
2. <item type="Manufactured">
3. <resourceCode>431048</resourceCode>
4. ... (0 Replies)
Hi guys, I am a newbie here :wall:
I need a script that can search for a file in a directory and copy the contents of that file in a new file.
Please help me. :confused: Thanks in advance~ (6 Replies)
I did a search before posting and couldn't find an example of what I need done. Anyway, I have a file called file1.txt, which has data like this:
File2.txt contains:
So what I need to do is from file1.txt find the first line M977 in file2.txt and replace the line below it with the line from... (4 Replies)
I am new to Linux and have a challenging task.
I have 3 data files, and need to do the following:
Go to line 31 of file 1, delete it
Read 1 line from file 2 and add in place of deleted line
Go to line 97 of file I delete it and then read the line 1 from file 2 and add in place of that... (2 Replies)
Hi folks! I'm new to the unix-side of the world! ;) and I'm trying to learn as much as possible the good stuff that's in it!
So.. here comes the point.. as you can see in the title, I need to copy a file but truncating it so that last 1-2 lines are not copied... any suggests from the... (6 Replies)
Hello All,
I want to copy some lines from one file to other with following condition.
Only lines between two specified strings should copy.
Example :-
"My First String "
Some_Other_String ....
Some_Other_String ....
Some_Other_String ....
"My Second String"
So only... (5 Replies)
I am trying to make my script as simple as a possible but, I am not sure if the way I am approaching is necessarily the most efficient or effective it can be. What I am mainly trying to fix is a for loop to remove a string from the specified files and within this loop I am trying to copy the lines... (2 Replies)