Shell Programming and Scripting

Why want to copy?
Is there a reason why you cannot directly output to the file, to the correct location
e.g. >>$EXE_DIR/$htmlfile.txt

take note of spaces in filenames when using the for loop with find. you can work around by changing IFS, do some quoting, or simply use the while read loop instead

Code:

find ..... | while read FILE
do
  # do something with $FILE
done

Vbe
I cant directly output in a file as $htmlfile has a extension of .html ( for example it $htmlfile = a/b/c/d/123.html ) , I need to create a .txt file with the same name and on the same location, so I want a/b/c/d/123.txt

"So the output of a/b/c/d/123.html should go to a/b/c/d/123.txt"

if i use
>>$EXE_DIR/$htmlfile.txt

the name of the file will be a/b/c/d/123.html.txt
isn't it?

Thanks!
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vbe wrote:
Why want to copy?
Is there a reason why you cannot directly output to the file, to the correct location
e.g. >>$EXE_DIR/$htmlfile.txt
1 Day Ago 12:07 AM

Try this:

Code:

txtfile=`echo ${htmlfile%.*}.txt`
cp "$htmlfile" "$txtfile"

Posix shell (ksh, bash, etc) can work with strings, what you are trying to do can be done using ${%patterrn} notation

Here is a small example:

Code:

 
find /opt/K/SCO/COMMUNICATOR -name "*.htm" |while read f; do 
s=${f%\.*}".txt";
echo "Old: " ${f};
echo "New: " ${s};
done

I am escaping '.' with \. as the '.' itself is spec char for shell.

Reslult:

Old: /opt/K/SCO/COMMUNICATOR/4.7.0j/nethelp/picsfail.htm
New: /opt/K/SCO/COMMUNICATOR/4.7.0j/nethelp/picsfail.txt
Old: /opt/K/SCO/COMMUNICATOR/4.7.0j/nethelp/NSHIfrm.htm
New: /opt/K/SCO/COMMUNICATOR/4.7.0j/nethelp/NSHIfrm.txt
...