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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. I will try it now.

Thank you.

Hi,
The solution is not working. Anyone can help me?

The scenario should be like this. Eg:

The user enter: prog test #test is a directory name in $HOME

In the prog shell script, the first thing it does is count the number of files in that directory. Then, it will list the time of each files and and me whether do I want to copy that file.

Sample output:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 kay test 373 May 5 18:43 max-min
-rw-r--r-- 1 kay test 157 May 5 18:20 reverse
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kay test 145 May 5 18:25 reverse1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kay test 286 May 5 18:25 reverse2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kay test 56 May 5 18:25 reverse3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 kay test 324 May 5 18:29 sum-ave

Then it should be like this [filename time: Do you want to copy the file?] :-
max-min 18:43: Do you want to copy this file?[y/n]
y

reverse 18:20: Do you want to copy this file?[y/n]
n
....
...
...(until all the files were scanned in that folder.)

Somehow, with those codes stated, the output is:
max-min 18:43 reverse 18:20 reverse1 18:25 reverse2 18:25 reverse3 18:25 sum-ave 18:29 : Do you want to copy the file?[y/n]

Do anyone know how to make it one by one? Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

Something to start with:

Code:

for i in $dir
do
  file=`ls -l "$i" | awk '{print $9, $8}'`
  printf "$file" Do you want to copy this file?[y/n] "
  read answer
  if [ "$answer" = "y" ]
  then
    cp ......
  fi
done

Thanks Franklin. This helps a lot.
Thank you so much for the help. ^^