On 8/31/07, primm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've 800 or so files and folders in a folder called nonmembers. I mkdir
> another folder in the folder nonmembers called members. I want to copy all
> the 800 files in nonmembers to members. I'm in the nonmembers folder at the
> command line. What do I type? Sounds easy doesn't it. I tried cp -a * members
> but that of course includes members. I suppose I want to say 'copy everything
> in the nonmembers folder that was there before I made the members folder to
> the members folder'. If I had a gui I would simply drag and drop.
>
> Thanks. Lynn.
A simple way that may work:
cd nonmembers
ls | grep -v members > /tmp/filelist
cp -a `cat /tmp/filelist` members
But I would expect the cp command line to be too long.
try
echo cp -a `cat /tmp/filelist` members
and see if it ends with members.
If not, you could replace it with a while loop the reads from
/tmp/filelist one filename at a time.
I don't remember the syntax offhand for that.
Greg
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