Shell Programming and Scripting

From my first reply:

Code:

find . -type f -name 'tmp*' -print | ...

thanks for reply
i tried this also but fail.
can u please give whole script.

Have you try to find out why it fails?
Put some effort into solving the problem with the given examples instead of always asking for the right answers.

Regards

thanks for reply

cd /home/jagannath.n
dated=$(date +%d-%m-%y)
test -d /home/jagannath.n/tmp/$dated | mkdir /home/jagannath.n/tmp/$dated
file=$(find . -name test* -print)
cp -rf $file /home/jagannath.n/tmp/$dated

my problem is solved using above script but it print below error .

cp: cannot stat `./Azureus': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `Downloads/SHELL': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `SCRIPTING': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `IN': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `LINUX/VTC': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `-': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `UNIX': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `SHELL': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `SCRIPTING': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `ADVANCED/Course': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `Files/Chapter': No such file or directory


is it error?

It's because you don't quote the arguments properly. But just adding double quotes around "$file" doesn't really help, either, because it's not a single file. I'd still recommend using tar or cpio for this.

Note there are two |:s before the mkdir, it's an "or"; "a || b" is a shorthand for "if not a then b" (which is equivalent to "a or b").

try this

Code:

#! /usr/bin/ksh

cd /home/backup/
find /home/abc/ -name "*.s" | while read line
do
  p=$(dirname $line )
  p1=$(echo $p | sed 's/\///')
  mkdir -p $p1
  cd $p1
  tocopy=$(pwd)
  echo $tocopy
  cp $line $tocopy
  cd -
done

That will still not cope with file names with spaces in them. Proper quoting, please!!