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Subject: Re: cp: omitting directory, for copying only files, sed
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2010 14:22:02 +0100
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Den 06-11-2010 15:12, Edgar Matzinger skrev:
> I ran this script (on MacOSX):
>
> #!/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?

Oh I see the light

xargs -n2 echo X:

will do the trick


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