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

[Bowie J. Poag]

Nope--no script needed. Type it in, right off the prompt. It's just a 
multi-line command.

Cheers,
Bowie


Jim March 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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