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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to backup multiple files and amend their filenames Post 89858 by m223464 on Wednesday 16th of November 2005 11:00:41 AM
Old 11-16-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by mschwage
Yup. Try this:

Code:
alias doit='find . -name "AMQERR*" -print | sed -e "s#\.\/##" | xargs -l -i cp {} \$QM-{}'

...Note that this code will descend into any subdirectories, which may not be what you want. Substitute a directory for dot, if you want (and maybe exclude the sed command).
-mschwage
Thanks for both these suggestions. I've tried this one liner and am hitting a problem. I don't think the sed command is working as I was getting an error. I've amended the code as follows to try and debug it:

Code:
alias doit='find /var/mqm/qmgrs/$QM/errors -name "AMQERR*" -print | sed -e "s#\.\/##" | xargs -l -i echo $QM-{}'

The result is as follows:

STPFAUQA-/var/mqm/qmgrs/STPFAUQA/errors/AMQERR03.LOG
STPFAUQA-/var/mqm/qmgrs/STPFAUQA/errors/AMQERR02.LOG
STPFAUQA-/var/mqm/qmgrs/STPFAUQA/errors/AMQERR01.LOG

The output from the find is:
/var/mqm/qmgrs/STPFAUQA/errors/AMQERR03.LOG
/var/mqm/qmgrs/STPFAUQA/errors/AMQERR02.LOG
/var/mqm/qmgrs/STPFAUQA/errors/AMQERR01.LOG

What sed expressions should I use to change this to just the filename? Or alternatively is there an ls command which can just display the filename negating the need for the sed?

Regards

Gareth
 

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