UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Just a suggestion: why not use "rsync"? It looks like it is doing exactly what you need and it can be configured to transfer only files newer than the ones already present at the target and similar timesavers.

Another idea: set up an NFS share, mount it on the Windows side and simply copy the files recursively using the Unix tools. If these are text files you might need to change line endings, here is a oneliner for that:

Code:

sed 's/^M$//' /path/to/input > /path/to/output

I hope this helps.

bakunin

If you can mount the file system on the Windows box, why bother copying them? Just use them from the mounted file system directly.

Just set up Samba on the Unix box and share out the file system read-only.

Thanks a lot all of you guys! I was busy doing some other thing so I made a shortcut solution to this problem, Haven't tried your's yet. Just thought I should share the shortcut. In windows search bar .cell search gives me all the .cell files, I copy all of them all together in a directory, then

Code:

for file in *.cell; do dir=`echo $dir | sed 's/\.cell//g'`; mkdir -p $dir/OPT-0; mv $dir.cell $dir/OPT-0; done

This puts all the .cell files in the directories and my other script can run the calculations. Thanks a lot guys, really appreciate your help. This is the best unix forum I've ever seen to get help!