Shell Programming and Scripting

All,

am quite new to unix shell scripting. my question is 'i have like 23 sub-directiries in source area and same 23 sub-directories in destination area. i want to move all the files of 1st sub-dir in source area to 1st sub-dir in destination area and so on till for 23 sub-dir's. i.e.

A B
1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 -----> 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

1st sub-dir files from source -> 1st sub-dir in destination
2nd sub-dir files from source -> 2nd sub-dir in destination
.........
.........
.........
23rd sub-dir files from source -> 23rd sub-dir in destination.

can we do it with a find command with xargs with mv command or do we need to write a shell script for this?

Thanks in advance,

vijnat

tar, cpio, rsync, pax and other would do that job.

jlliagre,

Thanks for your reply, but as i said earlier am very new to unix, can you please help me in providing it with an example.

Thanks

vijnat

Try that:

Code:

(cd A; tar cf - .)|(cd B; tar xf -)

It creates an archive of all files and directories in A and extract it on the fly in directory B.

Hi,

It worked great. Thanks for your helping hand. i appreciate it.

Thanks

vijnat