You're right I responded without really thinking about what I had sent... incrementing the variable is easy enough:
#!/bin/bash counter=0 while [ $counter -lt 10 ]; do cp ./samples/*.bla let counter=counter+1 done but keeping track of which files have been transferred is a bit more work ...expanding on the above snippet you could store a list of files in a text file iterate over the lines then remove them from the list once they have been copied over, that doesn't sound very elegant though On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Christer Watson <[email protected] > wrote: > a couple questions. don't you need to increment the $counter variable? > Don't you need to use the $counter variable to choose just one item > from a list of files in the /samples directory? > > Cheers, > > --Christer > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Travis Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > ye olden bash loops... > > > > #!/bin/bash > > counter=0 > > while [ $counter -lt 10 ]; do > > cp ./samples/*.bla > > done > > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Jonathan Bartels > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> I have a large batch of sample data files that are run through an > >> application by copying them to an 'inbox' directory. I would like to > >> do something like this: > >> > >> cp ./samples/*.bla --limit 10 > >> > >> So that only 10 of the sample files are copied instead of the whole > >> mess of 10000. It can be any files. I checked the manpage and didn't > >> see anything. > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > >> -- > >> ----- > >> Jonathan Bartels > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Fwlug mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > >> > >> This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep > >> this in mind before posting. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org > > This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this > in mind before posting. >
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