If your find supports the wholename option, and if your cp supports both --parent and -t then this might do the trick. It works for a small directory that I tested with. (These are two big if's)
It will not copy bigfile only from the bin directory; if it exists in other directories it should be copied.
If you want to test this to see what would be copied, make the following changes which will show the copy command for each source file. The list will be one copy per file to make it easy to read even though the command above will not run one copy per file, but will invoke the cp command once for multiple files.
The output will be something like:
The -t specifies the target directory allowing it to be placed at the head of the list making invocation with xargs more efficient, but showing the command this way might be confusing since the normal parameter arrangement is source followed by destination.
Another way to do it would be to use tar. This is my 'go-to' solution for such things. I'm unsure as to whether the --exclude option is recognised by all/most versions of tar. If not you can use -X filename, but that requires creating filename and populating it with a list of files to exclude. Not difficult, but not as simple as the example below:
I am trying to sort the following files from folder Bag to Apple, Cat Food, Dog Food. I can get all of the files I want into a new folder, but not sure of the best approch to get them to their final directory
My Files
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apple.1234.ext
apple.1235.ext
cat food 101.ext
Cat Food... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I've been spending a lot of hours trying to imitate cp copying a file to a directory.
cp
I just can't seem to write to a specified directory, it only creates a copy on the current directory.
any hints/tips will help! Thanks!
here's the code i've been trying to manipulate:
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Hi,
I am looking for an answer for following senario:
I have a text file (base.txt) which consist list of files to be searched like:
base.txt
abc.txt
def.txt
fgh.txt
Now i am going to search all the listed files in another directory after reading them one by one, once i found the... (10 Replies)
Hello all,
I've been researching this problem for days, and have gotten no luck . =/
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Hi Everybody,
i want a samll help to write a script.
i had source location with :/user/bin (bin contains subdirectories with like names emails etc and had several files in each subdirectory)
and target location with :/usr/scripts (having same subdirectories names and had some files)... (1 Reply)
I'm looking to write a script that will check the contents of a directory, and if any files exist in that directory copy them to a temporary folder. The target files are only resident for a few seconds, so I think the script needs to be running constantly.
Any pointers would be really... (3 Replies)
Hi Team,
I wish to copy the latest file of pattern "MyFile*" to some other location.
I need to do all the operation in a single command separated by |.
ls -rt <MyFile*> | tail -1 | <copy command>.
How can I do?
Please help me.
Thanks,
Kanda (2 Replies)
Hi All,
I am in the directory a/b/processed
the files in this directories are
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 330 Aug 8 chandantest.txt_08082008
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 220 Aug 7 chandantest.txt_07082008
-rw-r--r-- 1 owb users 330 Aug 6... (3 Replies)
Hi
I am new in unix and look for help in urgent.
I have a list of data files that located in a directory, and need to copy to another directory for loading. The condition here is, the list of data files has to be copy over by sequence, and if there is no file in targetted directory already.
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