On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > Am 08.02.2011 19:27, schrieb Mark Knecht: >> Hi, >> Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I >> have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I >> can find with locate and grep: >> >> c2stable ~ # locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv >> /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11-V1.csv >> /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11-V2.csv >> /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11-V3.csv >> <SNIP> >> /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11-V4.csv >> /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11-V5.csv >> c2stable ~ # >> >> I need to copy these files to a new directory >> (~mark/CorrelationTests) where I will modify what's in them before >> running correlation tests on the contents. >> >> How do I feed the output of the command above to cp at the command >> line to get this done? >> >> I've been playing with things like while & read but I can't get it right. >> >> Thanks, >> Mark >> > > locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv | xargs -IARG cp ARG > ~mark/CorrelationTests > > -IARG tells xargs to replace the occurrence of ARG in the parameters > with the actual parameters read from stdin. >
Thanks! This worked nicely and is relatively easy to remember. > or > > locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv | while read file; do > cp "$file" ~mark/CorrelationTests; done > This is what I was trying to do but was unsuccessful. > BTW: Wouldn't grep 'Builder/.*\.csv' match better (some intermediate > directory Builder, ending on .csv)? > Yes, that does seem to work. I guess that's grepping for the path of a file starting with Builder and ending with CSV? Good one. > Even easier: > locate ~mark/'*/Builder/*.csv' | xargs -IARG cp ARG ~mark/CorrelationTests > > Warning: I've not tested every line. Use with caution. > > Hope this helps, > Florian Philipp It did very much. Thanks! Now to work on modifying the files, again with a loop for all the files in ~mark/CorrelationTests - Mark
