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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cat files listed in text file and redirect to new directory with same filename Post 302948205 by Don Cragun on Friday 26th of June 2015 04:08:56 PM
Old 06-26-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by trigger467
I realized the problem I was creating. I forgot about all of the extra items in the long listing. I figured it out, of course after I posted for help.


This worked for me.
Code:
For I in $(ls /sourcedir | grep string)
Do
Cat /sourcedir /$i > targetdir/$i
Done

In addition to the capitization errors already mentioned, having a space in the middle of a filenames guaranteed to give you the wrong results.

The command cat /sourcedir /$i tries to copy the contents of a directory (/sourcedir) and the contents of a (probably non-existent) file in the root directory (/$i). That is an illegal operation on a directory on many systems. I doubt that this worked for you (even if you used cat instead of Cat; but it would have created empty files in the destinations you wanted.

If I understand what you're trying to do (and I'm not at all sure that I do), the following might be a better approach:
Code:
for i in /sourcedir/*string*
do	cp "$i" "targetdir"
done

or maybe just:
Code:
cp /sourcedir/*string* "targetdir"

if the files to be moved don't overflow argument length limits.
 

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dh_movefiles

DH_MOVEFILES(1) 						     Debhelper							   DH_MOVEFILES(1)

NAME
       dh_movefiles - move files out of debian/tmp into subpackages

SYNOPSIS
       dh_movefiles [debhelperoptions] [--sourcedir=dir] [-Xitem] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
       dh_movefiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for moving files out of debian/tmp or some other directory and into other package
       build directories. This may be useful if your package has a Makefile that installs everything into debian/tmp, and you need to break that
       up into subpackages.

       Note: dh_install is a much better program, and you are recommended to use it instead of dh_movefiles.

FILES
       debian/package.files
	   Lists the files to be moved into a package, separated by whitespace. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can
	   also list directory names, and the whole directory will be moved.

OPTIONS
       --sourcedir=dir
	   Instead of moving files out of debian/tmp (the default), this option makes it move files out of some other directory. Since the entire
	   contents of the sourcedir is moved, specifying something like --sourcedir=/ is very unsafe, so to prevent mistakes, the sourcedir must
	   be a relative filename; it cannot begin with a `/'.

       -Xitem, --exclude=item
	   Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from being installed.

       file ...
	   Lists files to move. The filenames listed should be relative to debian/tmp/. You can also list directory names, and the whole directory
	   will be moved. It is an error to list files here unless you use -p, -i, or -a to tell dh_movefiles which subpackage to put them in.

NOTES
       Note that files are always moved out of debian/tmp by default (even if you have instructed debhelper to use a compatibility level higher
       than one, which does not otherwise use debian/tmp for anything at all). The idea behind this is that the package that is being built can be
       told to install into debian/tmp, and then files can be moved by dh_movefiles from that directory. Any files or directories that remain are
       ignored, and get deleted by dh_clean later.

SEE ALSO
       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR
       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

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