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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Copying files Post 302950075 by MKTM_93_SIMP on Monday 20th of July 2015 06:17:55 PM
Old 07-20-2015
So I want to copy files from one dir to another but rename the file names in the source dir to the dir name, i was attempting to create one script to copy them and another to rename them? Or is it better to do it in one? Just trying to learn Linux - its harder than I anticipated!

When I run it without the / it comes up with

Code:
cp: cannot stat "*.doc"; No such file or directory

I have files within the source dir with the extensions doc and png

What I have at the minute, I'm not too sure its accurate;

To match with only doc and png file extensions
Code:
match ="(png|.doc)"

Chose working dir
Code:
src = '${1:-}"
dest = "{2:- /root/my-documents/NewDir/}

I'm not sure how to proceed from here, maybe with a for loop?.. and I can't really implement this either, i've got some ideas but it's just putting it together and actually getting the script to run which I find difficult.

Thanks
Last edited by MKTM_93_SIMP; 07-20-2015 at 07:26 PM..
 

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