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

[Christopher Robbins]

I'm entering this one a bit late, but...

No, you can actually type in Bowie's stuff from the command line and it will
do it for you...for-loops and the
like are implemented in the shell.

Good luck

  - Chris

On 6/27/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Chris Robbins
Systems Programmer
Department of English - University of Arizona
http://www.homerengineeringcorp.net