Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi,

I need to copy all files from this statement to another folder:

Code:

ls –l ./apps | grep –E “^l|^v”

How can i do that?

best regards!

Code:

 
ls -l ./apps | grep -E “^l|^v” | awk '{ print $NF }' | xargs cp {} destination_folder_path

thank you that nearly works.
The only problem now is that he tries to copy he says the file i want to copy is a directory?

best regards

Why do you need either ls or grep for that?

Code:

cp apps/[lv]* /some/new/dir 2>/dev/null

That won't work on files with spaces in the names, but that aside, you could just throw the "errors" away:

Code:

$ ls -l ...... 2> /dev/null

(and, incidentally, what ls -l output begins with a v?, and how can an ls -l output grepping for l return a directory - or anything but a symbolic link, for that?)

This command sequence looks unlikely to produce any output. I can't think of a circumstance where lines output by "ls -l" would start with character "v" ... and those starting with character "l" would be links. Also the type of quotes is wrong - looks like they have come from a Windows word processor.

What are you trying to do?
Can you post a sample "ls -l" and somehow show which files you are trying to copy and to where.

this just prints out all names of files within the folder apps which start either with an v or an l.

so i have the names of the files i want to copy now. and now i just need to copy the files with that names to another folder.

beste regards