Please help! simple bash script

Juanmadrid · 08-11-2011, 08:59 AM

is these oke?

#! / Bin / bash
cp /tmp/programming/practise/*.jpg /tmp/programming/practise/*music* /tmp/programming/Juan

I want tomake a script which copy 2 types of files from one directory to another! Thank you for your time!

TobiSGD · 08-11-2011, 09:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Juanmadrid

is these oke?

#! / Bin / bash
cp /tmp/programming/practise/*.jpg /tmp/programming/practise/*music* /tmp/programming/Juan

I want tomake a script which copy 2 types of files from one directory to another! Thank you for your time!

Hello, and welcome to LQ!

At first, please use code-tags when posting code.

I found only one error in your script, this line:

Code:

#! / Bin / bash

This should be

Code:

#! /bin/bash

Linux is case-sensitive, unlike Windows Bin and bin are not the same. Since this is the path to the interpreter for that script it may not contain spaces that are not in the path, and if there are spaces in the path they have to be escaped.

Juanmadrid · 08-11-2011, 09:20 AM

Thank you for your fast response!
so script is oke when that error is corrected?

catkin · 08-11-2011, 09:27 AM

Should be. What happens when you try it?

Juanmadrid · 08-11-2011, 09:37 AM

should I remove / on beginning of location so it should be tmp/programming/practise/*.jpg

TobiSGD · 08-11-2011, 09:44 AM

Paths beginning with / are absolute paths, paths without leading / are relative paths. A relative pathe will every time be interpreted from the current working directory, while the absolute path will always be interpretted from the root directory (/).
That means, if you don't use the leading / and your current directory doesn't contain a tmp/programming/ directory your script will not work.

For a better understanding of paths in Linux you may want to read this.

grail · 08-11-2011, 09:44 AM

Depends ... is the path to where the files are under /tmp or the tmp directory where you launch the script?

Juanmadrid · 08-11-2011, 09:56 AM

oh nice explanations

thank you!