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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Basic help improving for in loop Post 302904188 by Heath_T on Monday 2nd of June 2014 03:51:36 PM
Old 06-02-2014
Basic help improving for in loop

I'm obviously very new to this. I'm trying to write a simple for loop that will read the directory names in /Users and then copy a file into the same subdir in each user directory.

I have this, and it works but it isn't great.

Code:
#!/bin/bash
HOMEDIRS=/Users/*
for dirs in $HOMEDIRS; do

if [[ -d "$dirs" && ! -L "$dirs" ]]; then
#copy the config file from source to destination
/bin/cp "/Applications/tn3270 X.app/tn3270 preferences" $dirs/Library/Preferences/;

fi;

done

I'd like to be able to exclude some directory names ("Shared" and "shared_space"). Also, it seems like it might be awkward to construct the copy line as I did.

I'd appreciate any advice on how to do this better. Thanks!
 

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NAME
list directory - Displays a list of all the directories whose names match the specified directory name SYNOPSIS
cdscp list directory directory-name [with attribute-name = attribute-value] ARGUMENTS
The full name of a specific directory. The last simple name can contain wildcard characters. The name of a particular attribute. The value of a particular attribute. DESCRIPTION
The list directory command displays a list of all the directories whose names match the specified directory name. The last simple name can contain wildcards. You can use a with attribute-name = attribute-value clause to limit output only to directories whose attributes have values equal to the specified values. A space must precede and follow the = (equals sign). Privilege Required You must have read permission to the parent directory. If you use a with attribute-name = attribute-value clause in the command, you also need read or test permission to the selected directories. NOTE
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