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Hi I'm trying run the below code, unfortunately it throwing error.
Error Message: tail:cannot open ‘ H:\Test_Folder\' No such file or directory
tail: invalid option -3

Code:

cp  ` ls -tr *REPORT*.txt |tail -3` H:\Test_Folder\

to give you more insight of my requirement:
I am trying to copy the latest top 3 files received to H:\Test_folder\

Any help is apprecaited
Thanks!

Hi maybe you can try this:

Code:

tail -3 REPORT.txt > Report.txt && cp Report.txt  <directory>

in linux doesn't exist disks as letters (ex. H: ) so you have to mount it and copy it

The first thing the command above will do is delete all of the contents of the file Report.txt. Then, if the -3 option is accepted by tail, it will copy that empty file to whatever directory is named as the final operand to cp.

-3 is an obsolescent option form for tail that is no longer specified by the standards. The other error message is obvious: The destination directory you have given to cp does not exist. You'll have to get a correct pathname for your target directory; I can't guess at what that might be. For the other problem you could try:

Code:

cp  $(ls -tr *REPORT*.txt |tail -n 3) target_directory

Thank you all for your valuable inputs..

Now My target directory is H:\Test_Folder so How would define the target directory?

I am trying to copy files from remote to local

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Thank you so much DAN
It worked for Me