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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Moving files to a directory with a variable name Post 302982135 by Don Cragun on Sunday 25th of September 2016 12:00:29 AM

09-25-2016

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Originally Posted by ws1

I have this shell script which i am going to package into an application:

Code:

cd /Users/william/Desktop Cleaning; mkdir "date"; cp ~/Desktop/* ~/"date";

how would i point to the directory with the name unknown to cp?

So let me get this straight. You are sitting in a directory whose pathname contains the string /Users/william/Desktop and you want to change directory to one with that string replaced by the string Cleaning. And after you have moved to that directory you are going to create a directory named date in that directory. And then whether or not either of those commands worked, you are going to ignore your original working directory, your new working directory, and the directory you created and then copy all files in the Desktop directory in your login directory into the directory named date in your login directory.

What unknown name is it that you are talking about?

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mvdir

mvdir(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 mvdir(1M)

NAME

       mvdir - move a directory

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/sbin/mvdir dirname name

DESCRIPTION

       mvdir  moves  directories within a file system. dirname must be a directory. If name does not exist, it will be created as a directory.	If
       name does exist, and is a directory, dirname will be created as name/dirname. dirname and  name may not be on the same path; that  is,  one
       may not be subordinate to the other. For example:

	      example% mvdir x/y x/z

       is legal, but

	      example% mvdir x/y x/y/z

       is not.

OPERANDS

       dirname	       The name of the directory that is to be moved to another directory in the filesystem.

       name	       The  name  of the directory into which dirname is to be moved. If name does not exist, it will be created. It may not be on
		       the same path as dirname.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mvdir when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       0	Successful operation.

       >0	Operation failed.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mkdir(1), mv(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.10							    14 Mar 1997 							 mvdir(1M)

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