Shell Programming and Scripting

Guys,

I've got a list of about 200 files I need to copy from /tmp to /data. I can't use wildcards because the filenames are all very different.

What I want to do is cut and paste them into a file and read that as the input to a copy command (line by line). I tried using find and -exec combinations but can't get it to work. Is there a simple way to do:

cp &filename /data

but reading the data from a file containing

filename1
filename2

etc

Any help much appreciated

Hi.

Try with xargs:

Code:

$ cat filelist
file1
file2
file3

$ xargs -n1 -I{} < filelist cp /tmp/{} /data

$ ls /data
file1 file2 file3

A find would look like

Code:

find /tmp -f -name "whatever*" -exec cp -p {} /data \;

For feeding a list:

Code:

while read "LINE"; do
     cp -p "$LINE" /data
done < filelist

Code:

cd /tmp

cat filelist  |xargs -i cp {} /data/

Thanks guys got it working..