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Pretty Little Ditty
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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:05 am Post subject: how to copy files by a pre-made list?

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I tried to search the forum, and although I found some threads that are somehow related to my (very simple :wink:

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) question, I couldn't reall understand what to do.

I already have my list of the files ready. so, Iv'e tried this:

Code:

cat list.txt | xargs -0 cp --target-dir=/home/etc..etc...

but as you know, xargs gets the list as one big line. how do I make it read one line after the other?

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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:07 am Post subject:

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Something like the following may work (untested):

Code:

while read LINE; do
cp "$LINE" /path/to/target;
done < /path/to/files_list.txt

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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

Thank You!! it works.

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Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 3:46 am Post subject:

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or a bit easier:

Code:

cp $(< path/to/filelist.txt) /targetdir

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