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Hoshimaru
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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2004 10:43 am Post subject: Complicated file copy issue... |
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Hi,
This is kind of complicated. I received a patch "patch" for a dedicated server. However, that patch contains all updates and not only the last one.
I managed to find out what the new file were, doing
| Code: | | find Files/ -mtime 2 > new.txt |
That new.txt looks like this:
| Code: | Files/bin/dedicated.dll
Files/bin/dedicated_amd.so
Files/bin/dedicated_i486.so
Files/bin/dedicated_i686.so
Files/bin/engine_amd.so
Files/bin/engine_i486.so
Files/bin/engine_i686.so
Files/bin/tier0_i486.so
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How can I copy all the files mentionned in that file to another location, like ~/patch5/ and regenerate the directory tree as well ? |
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Hoshimaru
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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I tried this...
| Code: | | # cp -Rv `cat new.txt` target/ |
it copies the right files, but it doesn't regenerate the directories on target.
Files/bin/file1.bin become target/file1.bin
That's not what I'm looking for :'( |
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abcdefg
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Location: The Netherlands
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| Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2004 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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There probably a faster way, but his was some good bash practise for me 
| Code: | from=/home/user/location
to=/home/user/another_location
files=$(find $from/ -mtime 2)
for X in $files
do
Y=$(dirname $(echo "$X" | sed "s:$from::g"))
mkdir -p $to/$Y
cp $X $to/$Y
done |
I think this should work, place this text in a file and make it executable (chmod +x file) of course modify the from and to locations. |
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Hoshimaru
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Hi, thanks for your script
I almost works. It's having trouble with directories containing blanks. It forgets the part after the blank.
I'm looking how I can add
to your script.
It's a long time ago since I did shell scripts and almost forget everything :s
Last edited by Hoshimaru on Fri Nov 12, 2004 7:40 am; edited 1 time in total |
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abcdefg
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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I have no idee how to solve that problem. Currently it puts all the files that must be copied in a variable seperated by spaces, like: "/home/user/file1 /home/user/file with spaces /home/ etcetc" The problem is that is sees a file with spaces like two (or more) different files. Which of course isn't correct...
Does somebody else know how to solve this problem? |
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karatefish
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Location: Singapore
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| Posted: Fri Nov 12, 2004 3:33 am Post subject: |
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what about using the tar method from here? tar preserves directory structures in usual use, I can't see why it wouldn't work in this case....
edit: I just did a quick test and it seems to work fine. The command I guess would be something like:
| Code: | | tar -cf - `cat new.txt` | tar -C ~/patch5/ -xvf - |
assuming you've already created the ~/patch5 directory of course... |
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