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Old 03-03-2011
cp -p /home/* home/exp/*.date not working please help

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Not working

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cp -p /home/* home/exp/*.`date`

i am using this
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Old 03-03-2011
I'm not sure what you're even trying to do with multiple wildcard and NO destination directory given. Copy files into multiple destinations or what? cp doesn't do that, it takes one destination.

What files are you trying to copy, from what source, to what destination? Be specific.
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Old 03-03-2011
trying to copy a list of files from one directory to another with date stamp

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source /home :: all files
destination /home/exp
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Old 03-03-2011
Try this,
Code:
ls /home | awk '/^-/{print $NF}' | while read file; do echo cp "$file" /home/exp/"$file.`date '+%d%m%Y'`"; done


Last edited by pravin27; 03-03-2011 at 03:24 AM..
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Old 03-03-2011
I'm still not completely sure I understand what you want. You're copying multiple directories into one destination directory, but need to rename the directories in the process? You can't put a * in the destination like that, this isn't like DOS: The shell splits * for you before cp is even run, so you end up inputting stuff into cp that doesn't make sense if you * for things that don't exist yet.

I think you're going to have to split it into seperate cp calls.

Code:
for DIR in /home/*
do
        # Don't copy exp into exp/exp-timestamp!  It'd copy the copied copy copies!
        [ "$DIR" == "/home/exp" ] && continue

        NAME=`basename "$DIR"`
        cp -p "/home/${NAME}" "/home/exp/`date`-${NAME}"
done


Last edited by Corona688; 03-03-2011 at 05:30 PM.. Reason: missing backtick
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