Copy files grabbing destination folder from file name

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November 12th, 2011, 09:58 AM

pedroz

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Copy files grabbing destination folder from file name

Hi all...

Below is what I am trying to do:
1. Having the following folder with the files...
/source_folder/dodiddone.tar.gz
/source_folder/gowentgone.tar.gz
/source_folder/gowentgone.log

2. I need to copy and chown files with extension .tar.gz to another folder
copy /source_folder/dodiddone.tar.gz /dodiddone/destiny_folder/dodiddone.tar.gz
copy /source_folder/gowentgone.tar.gz /gowentgone/destiny_folder/gowentgone.tar.gz

3. code
#!/bin/sh
SOURCE="/source_folder"
EXTENSION="tar.gz"

for i in "$SOURCE"/*.$EXTENSION
do
copy $i /(???-1-)/(???-1-).$EXTENSION
chown /(???-1-)/(???-1-).$EXTENSION
done

4. my doubts!
(???-1-) : here would be something like ${i%%.$EXTENSION} |sed 's#^.*/##' to grab the file name

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Could you please help to solve this problem?

Many thanks!!!

November 12th, 2011, 03:03 PM

b49P23TIvg

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bash

This works with bash. And with other shells too. Remove echo when you are satisfied the commands are correct.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
SOURCE="/source_folder"
EXTENSION="tar.gz"

destinationPath=/dodiddone/destiny_folder/

for i in "$SOURCE"/*.$EXTENSION
do
  destination="$destinationPath"/"${i##*/}"
  echo copy "$i" "$destination"
  echo chown "$destination"
done

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