Copy bulk Files in Linux

nikolaymartin · 05-04-2020, 07:30 AM

I have multiple files in a Linux systems where I want to copy them with a single cp command into a different path and directory. Should I write a bash script to copy one by one?

pan64 · 05-04-2020, 07:43 AM

that will hardly work with a single cp, but without details hard to say anything. I suggest you to read the man page of cp.
You can write a bash/perl/python/tcsh/whatever script to do that, which is your preferred language?

Turbocapitalist · 05-04-2020, 07:47 AM

Yes, more details are needed. What critera do you have for selecting the files and where, rather specifically, shall they be put?

rtmistler · 05-04-2020, 08:12 AM

Can you specify these files using a find command? If so you can use find with an -exec argument or pipe the find results to another command.

WideOpenSkies · 05-04-2020, 12:18 PM

Should you write a bash script? Absolutely. Some details, as others have said, would be great.

shruggy · 05-04-2020, 12:50 PM

It's the sixth thread started by the OP here on LQ. But there were never follow-ups.

GPGAgent · 05-05-2020, 05:41 AM

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Originally Posted by shruggy

It's the sixth thread started by the OP here on LQ. But there were never follow-ups.

I just looked and your'e right, I always try to acknowledge any help I get - just polite!

ondoho · 05-06-2020, 03:51 AM

^ I guess some people do "bulk posting" - same question on a dozen different forums, then check the "harvest" a few days later.
Positively harmful behaviour if you ask me.
Maybe they even forget the other forums as soon as they get their handout, who knows. Interwebz is full of [expletive deleted].

shruggy · 05-06-2020, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by shruggy

It's the sixth thread started by the OP here on LQ. But there were never follow-ups.

Seems I was wrong all the way here.

@samueltarcin9999. That's funny. You always answer the questions of the OP as well as of Gabriel99990, but only them. Are they your alter ego? Is it a game of sorts I don't get?

WideOpenSkies · 05-06-2020, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by ondoho

^ I guess some people do "bulk posting" - same question on a dozen different forums, then check the "harvest" a few days later.
Positively harmful behaviour if you ask me.
Maybe they even forget the other forums as soon as they get their handout, who knows. Interwebz is full of [expletive deleted].

kek

ondoho · 05-07-2020, 05:45 AM

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Originally Posted by shruggy

Seems I was wrong all the way here.

@samueltarcin9999. That's funny. You always answer the questions of the OP as well as of Gabriel99990, but only them. Are they your alter ego? Is it a game of sorts I don't get?

Interesting.
All their posts provide links to the same web site; and incidentally I found out that user ibaydan is doing the same, so it would appear that samueltarcin9999 is ibaydan's alter ego, and at that point it seems entirely possible that this user has create a whole bunch of sockpuppets to promote their malware-ridden blog.

I am now reporting all samueltarcin9999's posts.