not working,
locate/find.. it will locate the files anywhere in the system, the file1,file2 could be in different directories..
Quote:
Originally Posted by kenshinhimura
yup they are duplicate files in multiple locations..i intend to do that.. so it should be copied on the specied folder..
Your statement / request is not quite clear. You use locate yourself in post#1. Do you want all files located (including the ones whose file names are supersets of the search term) to be copied to your target directory given in your data file? If several files with identical file names exist, they will overwrite each other - which one should survive?
To give you a starting point, you might want to consider / analyse this:
Code:
while read FN DN
do [ -d $DN ] || echo mkdir $DN
for LN in $(locate $FN)
do [ ! $FN = ${LN##*/} ] && continue
echo cp $LN $DN
done
done < datafile
It will check the resp. file name against the one in datafile and copy only if identical, but will not check for overwriting. Directories are checked for existence and created if non-existent. It will of course depend on the locate-DB to be up to date, and on those names not containing white space as these would confuse the for loop.
Give it a try an comment back
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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD
locate
LOCATE(1) BSD General Commands Manual LOCATE(1)NAME
locate -- find files
SYNOPSIS
locate [-d dbpath] pattern
DESCRIPTION
locate searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern. The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the
pathnames of all files which are publicly accessible.
Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``'', ``['' and ``]'') may be used in pattern, although they will have to be escaped
from the shell. Preceding any character with a backslash (``'') eliminates any special meaning which it may have. The matching differs in
that no characters must be matched explicitly, including slashes (``/'').
As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'') is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.
Options:
-d dbpath
Sets the list of databases to search to dbpath which can name one or more database files separated by ``:'', an empty component in the
list represents the default database. The environment variable LOCATE_PATH has the same effect.
FILES
/var/db/locate.database Default database
EXIT STATUS
locate exits with a 0 if a match is found, and >0 if no match is found or if another problem (such as a missing or corrupted database file)
is encountered.
SEE ALSO find(1), fnmatch(3), locate.conf(5), weekly.conf(5), locate.updatedb(8)
Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", ;login, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983.
HISTORY
The locate command appeared in 4.4BSD.
BSD April 19, 2004 BSD