Hi, I just spent a few hours learning how to find files and got a cp command up that looked like it should work..
I ran into a problem that was very tough to find the solution to though, cp: with --parents, the destination must be a directory Try `cp --help' for more information. I have since found a promising lead that suggested using the dirname command to solve my problem.. hours later that I wish I knew that. anyway, is there some drastic reason why --parents doesn't work with a full filename with filname and path? btw, I need the paths -T --parents seems like it should make it write to a file... #!/bin/bash DESTDIR="/media/disk/highpriority" find -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*' | while read line; do DESTtail=`echo "$line" | cut -c 2-` ; #echo cp -v "$line" "$DESTDIR$DESTtail"; cp -T --parents -v "$line" "$DESTDIR$DESTtail"; done Thanks. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
