Several other great recommendations! Thanks to you all - I should have more than enough to figure out an appropriate solution!
Dave On 11/22/16, Cathey, Jim <[email protected]> wrote: >>I want to make this the shortest command possible is because I don't want >> to add 60 lines of code to a script just to copy >>10 files (with error control and so forth). > > This sounds like an excellent opportunity to make a function, > or to feed an embedded pipe with a list... > > while read f; do > cp -f $f dest || error oops > done <<EOF > file/path/1 > file/path/2 > ... > EOF > > That sort of thing. There are many ways to skin that kitty. > > -- Jim > > _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
