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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Will this work? Post 38376 by oombera on Tuesday 15th of July 2003 09:55:33 AM
Old 07-15-2003
I would use a loop like the following, but it's just one possible way I suppose...
Code:
echo "Changing to $copycomp/data/"
cd $copycomp/data

for FILE in `ls $copycomp/data/exsyctr1.*`
do
  if [ -f $FILE ]; then
    echo "Backing up existing files"
    cp $FILE ${FILE%.*}.bak
  fi
done

echo "Copying from $livecomp/data/ to $copycomp/data/"
cp $livecomp/data/exsyctr1.* .

If you're not using KSH, then replace "cp $FILE ${FILE%.*}.bak" with "cp $FILE `echo $FILE | sed 's/\([^.]*\).*/\1/'`.bak"

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TV_REMOVE_SOME_OVERLAPPING(1p)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			    TV_REMOVE_SOME_OVERLAPPING(1p)

NAME

       tv_remove_some_overlapping - Remove some overlapping programmes from XMLTV data.

SYNOPSIS

       tv_remove_some_overlapping [--help] [--output FILE] [FILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       Read one or more XMLTV files and write a file to standard ouput containing the same data, except that some 'magazine' programmes which seem
       to contain two or more other programmes are removed.

       For example, if 'Schools TV' runs from 10:00 to 12:00, and there are two programmes 'History' from 10:00 to 11:00 and 'Geography' from
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SEE ALSO

       xmltv(5).

AUTHOR

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perl v5.14.2							    2004-01-01					    TV_REMOVE_SOME_OVERLAPPING(1p)
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