[NTLUG:Discuss] copy a list to a new directory

[Burton M. Strauss III]

for file in `cat somefilelist`



> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of Bobby Wrenn
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 11:06 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] copy a list to a new directory
> 
> 
> Burton M. Strauss III wrote:
> > It's the `` (left leaning quotes) - these execute the command 
> and put the
> > results into the command line.
> > 
> > for file in `ls -1 /some/other/directory`; do
> >  cp $file .
> > done
> > 
> > -----Burton
> > 
> Not exactly. I want to provide the list of files to copy from a file. 
> There are files in each directory that are not on the play list. I want 
> to copy the file on the play list into a single directory in order to 
> convert and burn them onto CDs.
> 
> So would this work:
> 
> for file in 'somefilename'; do
> cp $file .
> done
> 
> 
> 
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