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

[Jim March]

Bowie, I think you mean "stick this stuff in an executable script", right?

Jim

On 6/27/07, Bowie J. Poag <bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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