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Old 01-24-2011
Testing for subdirectories
Hello,

Can anyone help me figure out how to test if the item in the directory is a subdirectory?

I'm writing a code to copy all the contents of directory1 to directory2, but I want to skip all the subdirectories.

Thanks!
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Old 01-24-2011
Code:
 $ ruby -r"fileutils" -e 'Dir["*"].each{|x| !test(?d,x) and FileUtils.copy(x,"/destination") }'

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Old 01-24-2011
Sorry I forgot to mention that I'm writing in C =]
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Old 01-25-2011
If no space in file name:
Code:
cd directory1
ls -l |grep -v ^d |awk '{print $NF}' |xargs -i cp {} /directory2

If your find support maxdepth:

Code:
find /directory1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec cp {} /directory2 \;

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Old 01-25-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by l flipboi l
Sorry I forgot to mention that I'm writing in C =]
You can determine the type of file from a C programme by using the stat family of system calls, and then using the POSIX S_ISDIR(m) macro to test the st_mode field to determine if the file is a directory. All of the information that you will need to implement this can be found in man stat.
 
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