cp: omitting directory, for copying only files, sed

[David]

Hi Edgar
So you think it should be a missing newline?
I don't think that is the case, because the cp operations happens as 
they should. Further more I have tried adding the newline with a \n , 
and it doesn't help.
Regards David

> #!/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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