Is it possible to create these folders while copying files?
Well its possible to create these folder before copying files into... It means using a loop...
e.g. Using Junior-helper's code:
Dont ask if the code works, because I tested... But if you have issues its because you did not say all e.g. who are the owners of the dirs and files? tar will preserve them but what about $newdest/$i ?
We cant guess all.. it looks like those directories have the same name as their owner in which case you will have to do and chown and even perhaps a chmod because I cant guess what umask you have, if any...
So tried:
cp -r -p test1/ user@machine:///srv/www/vhosts/domain.co.uk/httpdocs/backup/
but this didn't work either :(
Anyone able to help with this?
Many thanks
Mr M (3 Replies)
i have users home directories in /home
all the users have some files starting with character e
and i want to copy all these files in a folder in my (root) home
using a script
i tried the script
for i in m5
do
cd m5
cp e1* /home/pc/exam
cd ..
done
but get these... (3 Replies)
Hi..
I have 2 servers with linux suse10.
I made a mistake and on one of the servers changed with chmod the permission of root in directory /.
In the other servers the permissions are correct
Please i need a script, to change the permissions of one server 1, using the same permission of the... (11 Replies)
I have files existing with same names in the folders with date as display below
c:\2010-09-10 <==== folder
arr1.jpg
arr2.jpg
arr3.jpg
arr4.jpg
c:\2010-09-09 <==== folder
arr1.jpg
arr2.jpg
c:\2010-09-08 <==== folder
arr2.jpg
arr3.jpg
arr4.jpg
... (5 Replies)
Hi all
I have a bash script, that loops through a folders files and all subfolders for .shtml files.
It looks for a string and replaces it, creating a backup of the original file.
This all works great, but I'd like, when the backup is done, that the files are then also created in their... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I just started to learn shell progamming and just can't get my head around the following problem.
I need to do the following:
I have a folder which contains 100+ subfolders. Inside these subfolders there is one folder named 'Morph' and several jpg's.
I need to copy all the files into... (4 Replies)
Folks,
I am hopeful that you may be able to help me out with writing a script that can be run nightly (as cron?) to loop through all subfolders within the "/media" directory, delete all of the files in each of them, and then copy in all of the files from the "/home//sansa" directory to each of... (6 Replies)
So I have extremely limited experience with shell scripting and I was hoping someone could point out a few commands I need to use in order to pull this off with a shell script like BASH or whatnot (this is on OS X).
I need to search out for filenames with account numbers in the name itself... (3 Replies)
Hi,
So i know we use cp -r as a basic to copy folders/files.
I would like this BUT i would like to show the output of the files being copied.
With the amazing knowledge i have i have gone as far as this:
1) find source/* -exec cp -r {} target/ \;
2) for ObjectToBeCopied in `find... (6 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
chroot
chroot(1M) System Administration Commands chroot(1M)NAME
chroot - change root directory for a command
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/chroot newroot command
DESCRIPTION
The chroot utility causes command to be executed relative to newroot. The meaning of any initial slashes (/) in the path names is changed
to newroot for command and any of its child processes. Upon execution, the initial working directory is newroot.
Notice that redirecting the output of command to a file,
chroot newroot command >x
will create the file x relative to the original root of command, not the new one.
The new root path name is always relative to the current root. Even if a chroot is currently in effect, the newroot argument is relative to
the current root of the running process.
This command can be run only by the super-user.
RETURN VALUES
The exit status of chroot is the return value of command.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Using the chroot Utility
The chroot utility provides an easy way to extract tar files (see tar(1)) written with absolute filenames to a different location. It is
necessary to copy the shared libraries used by tar (see ldd(1)) to the newroot filesystem.
example# mkdir /tmp/lib; cd /lib
example# cp ld.so.1 libc.so.1 libcmd.so.1 libdl.so.1
libsec.so.1 /tmp/lib
example# cp /usr/bin/tar /tmp
example# dd if=/dev/rmt/0 | chroot /tmp tar xvf -
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO cd(1), tar(1), chroot(2), ttyname(3C), attributes(5)NOTES
Exercise extreme caution when referencing device files in the new root file system.
References by routines such as ttyname(3C) to stdin, stdout, and stderr will find that the device associated with the file descriptor is
unknown after chroot is run.
SunOS 5.11 15 Dec 2003 chroot(1M)