[PLUG] Copying From Multiple Source Directories to a Destination Directory

[Fred James]

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
# 
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#       Fred James - fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net - 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
# 
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# change this line to suit
Here="/home/fredjame/toolbox/sandbox/foo"
# 
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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
# 
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exit 0
# 
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