See also useless use of ls. The shell's perfectly capable of creating its own lists of files without ls | grep | awk | sed | millions | of | waseful | pipes.
When you have ls | stuff You can just do
to do it all in one step, avoiding running ls and grep at all.
There is a situation where you might want ls though -- when there's millions of files. In that case there might be too many to fit into *. In that case you would need to do something like
Again, as scottn says, the "-l" is pointless when you're not using the long listing: Just do ls by itself into a pipe and it will list the exact same files, one per line, without all the garbage that'd otherwise trouble you.
Requirement:
When I do ls -ltr /home/data/orders I get a huge list of files, I need to copy that last 50 to another directory say /home/work/ later, I will do my ETL process and then again I need to copy from 51 to 100 and so on.
What is the command to copy files specifying 1 to 50... (5 Replies)
for XmlFileName in ${xmlFileNames}
do
XmlFileName=$(echo $XmlFileName | sed 's|./||') # Remove leading ./ path that find command prefixes to filenames
cp $XmlFileName $NEW_DIR/
done (1 Reply)
Hi all,
I'd very grateful for some help with the following:
I have a directory with several subdirectories with files in them. All files are named different, even between different subdirectories. I also have a list with some of those file names in a txt file (without the path, just the file... (5 Replies)
Hello,
I have a folder with a massive amount of files, and I want to copy out a specific subset of the files to a new directory. I would like to use a text file with the filenames listed, but can't get it to work.
The thing I'm hung up on is that the folder names in the path can and do have... (5 Replies)
Hi.
I have a list with file names like
testfile1.wav
testfile2.wav
testfile3.wav
and a folder that contains a large number of wav files (not only the ones on the list).
I would like to copy the files whose names are on the list from the wav file directory to a new directory.
I... (5 Replies)
dear all.
how can i copy a list of files with different names into others directory have the same name
like i have 3 files
10_10
10_10_11
10_10_11_12
and i have 3 directories
10_10
10_10_11
10_10_11_12
how can i make a loop to cp this files into the directory have the same name like... (0 Replies)
I will be very grateful if someone can help me with bash shell script that does the following:
I have a list of filenames:
A01_155716
A05_155780
A07_155812
A09_155844
A11_155876
that are kept in different sub directories within my current directory. I want to find these files and copy... (3 Replies)
:confused:
I have more than 8000 files in a dir, I need to copy to other dir which containing the "sample"
I tried
grep -il "1189609240791-1268115603299237276@216.109.111.119 ' | cp /tmp/inv
Nothing is happening for long time for 100 file dir too,
Any one can help me? (11 Replies)
Hi all,
I am a newbie in writng unix..I am using ksh shell..Does anyone know how to copy a list o files from directory A to directory B with differnt names? i.e
in Dir A, I have
RPT101.555.TXT
RPT102.666.TXT
and I want to copy those files to dir B with new naming convention..
in Dir B,... (7 Replies)