[Tfug] Need help with a complicated command line copy...

[Bowie J. Poag]

Type this in as you see it:

cd /
for i in pdf doc xls
do
find /this/guys/hard/disk/*.$i >list.foo
done


for i in `cat list.foo`
do
cp $i /destination/directory/where/you/want/the/files/to/go/
done


Cheers,
Bowie




Jim March wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I have a complicated problem.
>
> I have a stack of old hard disks with data a friend wants extracted.
> There are a lot of duplicates, and of course they're scattered across
> multiple subdirectories.
>
> The file types are as you'd expect: .pdf, .doc, .xls, etc.
>
> At the DOS command line I'd have trouble with this: I could use XCOPY
> to move the files (based on extension) from disk to disk including
> subdirectories, but In this case I don't WANT the target-location
> files to be in subdirectories.  Instead, as I pile the files into the
> target location I want to keep them all in one, and as new ones try
> and come in retain the one with the latest datestamp.
>
> I'm using standard Ubuntu Feisty so I figure there has to be a way to
> skin this cat at the command line, probably with standard tools but,
> maybe with some add-in package?  Any tips would be welcome :).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jim
>
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