How to make copy with filelist on Linux?

[klug]

linux copy filelist

Some problem:

I have some dir with files on it. Also I have some file with list of files to copy. How to copy only files from that list?

I have made some bash script:
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#!/bin/bash
#
#

SORCEDIR=/home/danny/files/
TARGETDIR=/home/danny/files2/
ALIST=/home/danny/filelist.txt

FILELIST=`cat $ALIST`

for NAME in $FILELIST

do

cp $SORCEDIR$NAME $TARGETDIR

done
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But this script is not working correctly if file name has space on it (for example "Last Doc.pdf" ) . How to make correct script?

Thanks in advance. klug.

 

[deepspawn]

You are getting to compicated to do that. cp recives arbitrary archives space separated and the last argument its recieves its the target.

cp file_1_ext file_2.ext ... filen_ext target_dir/


And the space thing on *nix is trated as a special carater so you need to precede it with a \ , I reccomend avoid using spaces in names and replacing with _ cuz if you work often in *sh you will see that you are getting 2 caracters more to type, even with TAB...
does de work....

I assume you can guess the rest...

 

[klug]

Yes, I know that it is better to avoid spaces in filenames, but I have this problem and I cannot change filenames and list.

I have solved this problem by this way:

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#!/bin/bash
#
#

SORCEDIR=/home/danny/files/
TARGETDIR=/home/danny/files2/
ALIST=/home/danny/filelist.txt

cd $SORCEDIR
tar cvf - --files-from $ALIST | (cd $TARGETDIR ; tar xvf -)
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[deepspawn]

HAHAHAH goood way to do that, still itsn't the BEST way, maybe you could use a filter.
(It's from mysql, but yoy can use it)

replace \\b \\\ -- filelist.txt

\b is a switch that replace needs to find spaces the aditional \ is the well known reason, maybe you could place a \(space) here, I'm not sure
\\ puts a \ in the file
and the \ (space) puts the space in the file. that's why the \\\(space)

It does the work of translating the spaces

There's a even better way to do that, is a pipe that translates on the fly, but I don't remember quite well, so I'm not messing with it right now

 

[klug]

Thanks, deepspawn,

I also was looking for replacing " ", but have not found the way... There is no "replace" command in my Slackware Linux.
Anyway, thanks for your idea, I will keep it for the future

Best Wishes! klug.