X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SARE_HELO_EQ_CUST,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: David Subject: Re: cp: omitting directory, for copying only files, sed Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:54:25 +0100 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <6488B010-E946-4EA3-BE77-586ACD794EEB@edgar-matzinger.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; da; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100608 Thunderbird/3.1 In-Reply-To: <6488B010-E946-4EA3-BE77-586ACD794EEB@edgar-matzinger.nl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Hi Edgar So you think it should be a missing newline? I don't think that is the case, because the cp operations happens as they should. Further more I have tried adding the newline with a \n , and it doesn't help. Regards David > #!/bin/sh > W="\/Users\/edgarm\/tmp\/$1\/." > echo $W > sed -n 's/^File[ ]*\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\"\1\" '"$W"'/p' < $2 | xargs echo X: > > And this is the output... > > tmp$ ./cptest1 test list.txt > \/Users\/edgarm\/tmp\/test\/. > X: ..\test\file1.txt /Users/edgarm/tmp/test/. ..\test\file2.txt > /Users/edgarm/tmp/test/. > > See the problem? > > Regards, Edgar Matzinger. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple