Shell Programming and Scripting

The cp utility will always give you a diagnostic message if a copy fails. You haven't told us what operating system you're using, but if my guess (based on the names of some of your filesystems) that you're using a Linux operating system is correct, changing:

Code:

-exec cp {} "$dstdir" \;

to:

Code:

-exec cp -v {} "$dstdir" \;

should give you what you want. If you're using a system where cp doesn't support the -v option, you could change it to:

Code:

-exec cp {} "$dstdir" \; -exec printf '%s copied successfully\n' {} \;

I am using ubuntu 14.04 lts. I will give a try to the advices you have given. and will let you know how the things are going
I really appreciate you help in this regard

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I hope it is working for you. It's past time for me to go to bed...

@Don Cragun I hope you are having a pleasurable sleep. Do guide me on one more thing that i also want to create a log file as well. Like it saves when a file is copied with its source and destination locations. Also i want to include in the log file when a copy does not happen. the log file will help me to find out if the things are going smoothly or not.

Does this mean you want a log file written on top of having the messages on screen? Try piping through the tee command. If you wish to catch error msgs as well, you'll need to combine stdout and stderr upfront.

Can you please show me an example ? It would be great

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Code:

cp -v * $destdir 2>&1 | tee $logfile

will show progress and errors on screen and save them to the logfile at the same time.