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

[Chris Cox]

Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Bobby Wrenn wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Try this:
> 
>  for f in `cat list_of_files`; do
>      cp $f .
>  done
> 

Or perhaps...

xargs -i cp {} . <list_of_files

or if the list isn't too long...

cp $(<list_of_files) .