cp: omitting directory, for copying only files, sed

[Edgar Matzinger]

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Hi David,

On 6 Nov 2010, at 13:15, David wrote:

> I have a script:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> W="\/cygdrive\/c\/Users\/dbj\/workspace\/$1\/."

Why do you escape the directory separators?

> echo $W
> sed -n 's/^File[ ]*\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\"\1\" '"$W"'/p' < $2 | xargs cp

Oh, you're using '/' as string delimiter. Use ':'. I.e.:
sed -n 's:/^File...:\1...:p'

>
> Then I do
>
> $ ./cptest1.sh test list.txt
> \/cygdrive\/c\/Users\/dbj\/workspace\/test\/.
> cp: omitting directory `/cygdrive/c/Users/dbj/workspace/test/.'
>
> Why do I get "cp: omitting directory"?

I ran this script (on MacOSX):

#!/bin/sh
W="\/Users\/edgarm\/tmp\/$1\/."
echo $W
sed -n 's/^File[ ]*\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\"\1\" '"$W"'/p' < $2 | xargs echo X:

And this is the output...

tmp$ ./cptest1 test list.txt
\/Users\/edgarm\/tmp\/test\/.
X: ..\test\file1.txt /Users/edgarm/tmp/test/. ..\test\file2.txt /Users/ 
edgarm/tmp/test/.

See the problem?

Regards, Edgar Matzinger.
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