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# 8  
Old 11-18-2010
What are the full names of the source and destination directories?
# 9  
Old 11-18-2010
hi,
I apologize if i was not clear.

source and destination dir paths :
Code:
/home/guest/source
/home/guest/source/Dest

# 10  
Old 11-18-2010
But you have paths with other names in your input file?
Code:
/xyz/Test/testsrc.c /xyz/nmake/build.mak /abc/1.c

# 11  
Old 11-18-2010
What are the full names of the source and destination directories?

I gave source & destination directory paths as follows:
Code:
/home/guest/source
/home/guest/source/Dest

under source i have
Code:
/xyz/Test/testsrc.c /xyz/nmake/build.mak /abc/1.c /abc/1.h ../proj_src/2.c ../proj_src/2.h /abc/svn/.svn  xyz/dump/dump.log

input file contains:
Code:
/xyz/Test/testsrc.c /xyz/nmake/build.mak /abc/1.c

now i want to copy above mentioned files (as per input file) to /home/guest/source/dest so result should be

Code:
/home/guest/source/dest/xyz/Test/testsrc.c 
/home/guest/source/dest/xyz/nmake/build.mak
/home/guest/source/dest/abc/1.c

input file is located here: /home/guest/source

Smilie
Last edited by dragon.1431; 11-18-2010 at 10:34 AM.. Reason: corrected code tags
# 12  
Old 11-18-2010
Try this:
Code:
Source="/home/guest/source/"
Dest="/home/guest/source/Dest/"

tr ' ' '\n' < ${Source}inputfile | while read file
do
  cp ${Source}${file} ${Dest}${file}
done

# 13  
Old 11-19-2010
Hi Franklin,
Thanks a lot for your solutions.

it didn't work !!

Code:
#!/bin/bash
Source="/home/guest/source/"
Dest="/home/guest/source/Dest/"
tr ' ' '\n' < ${Source}input | while read file
do
  cp ${Source}${file} ${Dest}${file}
done

input
Code:
/xyz/Test/testsrc.c /xyz/nmake/build.mak /abc/1.c

got error as follows:
Code:
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/guest/source/Dest//xyz/Test/testsrc.c': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/guest/source/Dest//xyz/nmake/build.mak': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/guest/source/Dest//abc/1.c': No such file or directory

tried removing forward slash at the beginning of input file!
input
Code:
xyz/Test/testsrc.c xyz/nmake/build.mak abc/1.c

error:
Code:
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/guest/source/Dest/xyz/Test/testsrc.c': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/guest/source/Dest/xyz/nmake/build.mak': No such file or directory
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/guest/source/Dest/abc/1.c': No such file or directory

I have those input files in Source directory and i also have necessary permissions to write in Dest as well.

any idea ?
Last edited by dragon.1431; 11-19-2010 at 03:44 AM.. Reason: updated error info
# 14  
Old 11-19-2010
Does it work if you copy the files manually?
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