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BASH Script for copying files recursively form one directory to another

By admin on July 19th, 2008

#!/bin/bash
 
# Author : Antony
# Date   : 19/07/2008
# Description : Script for copying files recursively form one directory to another
 
# Get Source and Destination Directory Paths
echo "Enter the source path"
read src
echo  "Enter the Destination path"
read dest
 
for file in `find $src -name "*.*"`
do
echo $file
echo `cp $file $dest`
done

No Responses to “BASH Script for copying files recursively form one directory to another”

1. Jyoti Sharma says:

   May 27, 2009 at 2:06 pm

   cp -R src dest

   will achieve the same thing much more elegantly.

   Regards.
2. admin says:

   September 4, 2009 at 5:51 pm

   Yes you are right .. But this program is just an example for loop in bash . .

   #!/bin/bash
   
   # Author : Antony
   # Date   : 19/07/2008
   # Description : Script for copying files recursively form one directory to another
   
   # Get Source and Destination Directory Paths
   echo "Enter the source path"
   read src
   echo  "Enter the Destination path"
   read dest
   cp -rf src dest
   done