Problem with bash script

[Carmel NY]

On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:56:15 +0200
Bertram Scharpf <lists at bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Dienstag, 16. Jun 2009, 09:09:09 -0400 schrieb Carmel NY:
> > [...] It seems to work until I get to the copy part where it fails.
> > 
> > My scripting skills are not that good. Perhaps someone could tell me
> > what I am doing wrong.
> > 
> > # copy the file to another directory using the base name
> > cp $i /usr/home/tmp/$BN
> 
> Please provide the error message next time.
> 
> I guess the filenames contain spaces. Try
> 
>   cp "$i" "/usr/home/tmp/$BN"
> 
> Bertram

I am an idiot. The problem was that the directory did not exist. It was
suppose to be "$HOME/tmp/$BN".

However, I rarely use find and was not aware of the '-exec' function. I
use that and it worked fine.

Thanks to everyone for their assistance.

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Carmel