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The double dash -- marks the end of options, so it should be after the -t option and its argument.
That is a useless use of cat and useless use of backticks, inherently dangerous because any file too long for a shell variable to hold will have some of its contents silently lost. It's also very inefficient. There's a much better way to do this, which doesn't attempt to store the entire file in memory at once, and uses pure shell built-ins:
Last edited by Corona688; 07-09-2011 at 05:52 PM..
Hi
I have 3 directories
indexes_with_ts
indexes_without_ts
process_indexes
in each directories it contains *.sql
how do I accomplish this:
for all the files found in indexes_without_ts, copy the corresponding file in indexes_with_ts to process_indexes.
i.e.
for... (2 Replies)
How to copy files from one directory to another directory with the subfolders copied.
If i have folder1/sub1/sub2/* it needs to copy files to folder2/sub1/sub2/*.
I do not want to create sub folders in folder2.
Can copy command create them automatically?
I tried cp -a and cp -R but did... (4 Replies)
I have directory that has some billion file inside , i tried copy some files for specific date but it's always did not respond for long time and did not give any result.. i tried everything with find command and also with xargs..
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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)
I have a folder will a lot of documents (pdf, xls, doc etc.) which users have uploaded but only 20% of them are currently linking from my html files. So my goal is to copy only the files which are linked in my html files from my Document directory into another directory.
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Dear All,
Again I have another simple question. :confused:
I want to write a csh which can copy all files of a current directory with a new name in the same directory, I mean:
If I have tree bird apple as files in a directory I want to give ,say number 007 as argument to my csh and it copies... (3 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... (31 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)
I need to copy about 13 Tb of data from one directory and subdirectories to the other (another mount point). If I run this as a cron, say between 10 pm and 7 am, not all of the files will be copied over. Is there a way of 'resuming' the copy the following evenings until all files are copied over? (0 Replies)