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# 1  
Old 04-11-2005
Lightbulb Moving files by splitting the path embedded in the filename
Hello All.

I am having a directory /tmp/rahul which contains many files in the format
@#home@#rahul@#programs@#script.pl
where /home/rahul/programs is the directory where the script.pl file is to be placed.

I have many files in this format.

What i want is a script which read these filenames from the /tmp/rahul directory and copy the files to their respective locations.
Actually i will run this script through a crontab for daily maintainence.

Thanks
# 2  
Old 04-11-2005
sounds like a good use for the case structure...

You can designate actions based on input parsed from your list. I am busy atm, but will post back or maybe someone can beat me to it.


case in {};

home)
cp file to dest;
;;

rahul)
cp file to dest;

;;

programs)
cp file to dest;

;;

script)
cp file to dest;

;;

*)
default if no match...
;;
esac
# 3  
Old 04-11-2005
wouldn't it be easier to simply substitute '@#' with '/' and copy the files?
# 4  
Old 04-12-2005
the "@#" in the filenames have to be replaced by "/" before the files can be moved/copied ...
Code:
#! /bin/ksh

for item in @#*
do
    a=`echo $item | sed -e "s/@#/\//g"`
    file=`basename $a`
    filedir=`dirname $a`
    if [ ! -d $filedir ]
    then
        mkdir -m 755 -p $filedir
    fi
    cp -p $item $filedir/$file
    ls -l $filedir/$file
done

exit 0

# 5  
Old 04-13-2005
Thnaks for ur Reply
Hi All,
Thanks for ur suggestions, I don't want to create directories as they already exist.
With sed i have found a very simple solutin as follows....

webpage_path='/tmp/customer_webpages'
for fileName in `ls -l $webpage_path|grep '^-'|tr -s ' ' ' '|cut -f9 -d ' '`
do
newPathAndFileName=`echo $fileName | sed -e "s/@#/\//g"`
cp $webpage_path/$fileName $newPathAndFileName
done

Tell me if i can optimise it better......Smilie
# 6  
Old 04-13-2005
the earlier code only checks to make sure that the directories exist and create them if they don't ... anyways, you already said that the filenames all start with "@#" so you only have to list those out ...
Code:
webpage_path='/tmp/customer_webpages'
for fileName in `cd $webpage_path; ls @#*`
do
    newPathAndFileName=`echo $fileName | sed -e "s/@#/\//g"`
    cp $webpage_path/$fileName $newPathAndFileName
done

# 7  
Old 04-14-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by Just Ice
the earlier code only checks to make sure that the directories exist and create them if they don't ... anyways, you already said that the filenames all start with "@#" so you only have to list those out ...
Code:
webpage_path='/tmp/customer_webpages'
for fileName in `cd $webpage_path; ls @#*`
do
    newPathAndFileName=`echo $fileName | sed -e "s/@#/\//g"`
    cp $webpage_path/$fileName $newPathAndFileName
done

Does this script miss the destination directory ?
 
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