Russell Johnson wrote: > On 6/13/2010 5:34 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> I'm upgrading PSTricks. There are 50 modules, and the relevant .tex files >> are each in its own directory. I thought that I could cd to the parent >> directory of these and use 'cp -R *.tex >> /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pstricks' but the shell tells me it cannot find >> a *.tex file. >> >> Do I need to use a for loop so the shell knows to look in each directory >> for the .tex file to copy? Or have I not used the cp command correctly? >> >> > > Are you wanting to copy just the .tex files, and into the same directory > structure? > > This should do that: > > |tar cf - *.tex | ( cd /target; tar xfp -)| > > Not tested. I've used similar for backing up to disk. > If that doesn't work, you could try something like this ... Regards Fred James
#! /bin/bash # fooer.sh # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Fred James - [email protected] - 13 June 2010 # based on earlier versions by the same author, on the same general idea # distributed free of cost, and without remedy, entirely at the user's # own risk # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # change this line to suit Here="/home/fredjame/toolbox/sandbox/foo" # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Base=$Here Cmd=$Base/fooer.sh Sw=0 if test $# -eq 1 then Here=$1 Sw=1 cd $Here fi if test $Sw -eq 1 then Count=`ls -l *.tex | wc | gawk '{ print($1) }'` if test $Count -ge 1 then cp *.tex $Base fi fi for file in `ls` do if test -d $file then echo "$file is directory" $Cmd $Here/$file fi done # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ exit 0 # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [EOF] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
