newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

[Martin Vana]

Hi,
I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with list of path/files 
to 
programs like cp/mv.
Thanx
Martin


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Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said:
 I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with
 list of path/files to programs like cp/mv.

If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total):

  cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/

If the list is large:

  xargs  myfile -J% cp % /otherdir/

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Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

[Andy Harrison]

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On 01-Oct-2003, Martin Vana wrote message newbie question - how to pass
textfile as an argument
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 I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with list of
 path/files to 
 programs like cp/mv.

AFAIK, you can't.  You can, however, use something like the find command.  

find /somedir -type f -name '*pattern*' -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} newdir \;
(maxdepth 1 limits it to the current directory, otherwise it is recursive.)

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Re: newbie question - how to pass textfile as an argument

[Viktor Lazlo]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Dan Nelson wrote:

 In the last episode (Oct 01), Martin Vana said:
  I was just wondering if there is a way how to pass a text file with
  list of path/files to programs like cp/mv.

 If the list is small (less than 65000 characters total):

   cp $(cat myfile) /otherdir/

 If the list is large:

   xargs  myfile -J% cp % /otherdir/


You could also run it through a for loop:

for i in $(cat myfile); do mv $i ~/mydir; done

Or if the files can be grouped by a pattern:

for i in *.mp3; do mv $i ~/mymp3s; done

Or if the files are scattered all over your hard drive and you haven't
created a list yet:

find / -type f -name *.mp3 -exec mv {} ~/mymp3s \;

Cheers,

Viktor
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