Shell Programming and Scripting

linux:~ #  ls /usr/NX/var/log/*.log
/usr/NX/var/log/nxd.log  /usr/NX/var/log/nxerror.log  /usr/NX/var/log/nxserver.log
linux:~ #

CMD="cp -v    \"/$MY_DIR_5_2/*.log\"  \"$MY_ROOT_DIR/$MY_DIR_5_2\" "
echo "COMMAND_5 : $CMD"
eval $CMD

linux:~ # cp -v    "/usr/NX/var/log/*.log"  "/root/bin/202_nomachine_4/000_backup_current_config/2014-12-18__12-29-04/usr/NX/var/log"
cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/NX/var/log/*.log': No such file or directory
linux:~ #

for ELEMENT in "${ARRAY[*]}"
do
   echo "$ELEMENT"
done

# Defines the variable 'list' as an array
declare -A list   
# Fill the array, exit if it fails
list=$(echo /var/log/*log) || exit 1 
# Copy the files
cp -v "${list[*]}" "/target/dir"

array1=( one two "t h r e e" four)

array2=( $(ls /var/log/*log) )

array3[0]=one
array3[1]=two
array3[2]="t h r e e"

command "big long path with spaces/"*.ext

cp "big long source path with spaces/*.ext   big long dest path with spaces

"this is quoted"this_is_not"this is"this_is_not"but all the same string"*.txt

cp "big long source path with spaces/"*.ext   "big long dest path with spaces"

ls "/usr/NX/var/log/"*.log

ls "/dir/with/s p a c e s/log"*.log # note this should list the files, you can't simply substitute ls with cp.

CMD="cp -v    \"/$MY_DIR_5_2/\"*.log  \"$MY_ROOT_DIR/$MY_DIR_5_2\" "

CMD="ls \"/dir/with/s p a c e s/log\"*.log | while read file; do cp -v \"$file\" \"$MY_ROOT_DIR/$MY_DIR_5_2\"; done "