I will appreciate any help received. Our system is running on hpux v1
My problem is as follows:
We have many customer folders with name fd000100, fd000101 and so on
e.g.
Each customer folder has 5 sub-folders. Our target folder is reports folder.
This reports folder has many sub-folders and many files in each sub-folders.
We need to copy these reports folders with its parent folder e.g. fd000100 along with all sub-folders in it.
Say our destination path is /Testrun/new-dest
So, after copy the listing should be as follows:
and so on...
Any help or hints on this recursive copy command will be highly appreciated.
Thanks you in advance.
Last edited by Don Cragun; 09-02-2014 at 03:06 PM..
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Not entirely sure what you want to do here, am I to understand that you want to copy everything to a new destination - and place the other four directories inside the reports directory.
In the TESTrun directory, try this manually to see if it works in general as expected:
If the result is OK, and assuming all directories starting with fd do not contain any whitespaces, you can do the rest via for loop:
We have around 700 such fd000100 folders e.g. fd000101, fd000102, fd000103 and so on. Hence manual copy is not an option. I tried
But it does not serve my purposes. In the destination path the fd000100 folders are not present. Is it possible to create these folders while copying files?
The source directory structure is:
There are few millions of such text files.
I am searching for a solution to copy these directory recursively with sub-folders and files to a new destination such as
/TESTrun
So, after copy the new directory should be as follows
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