Problem with bash script

[Matthew Seaman]

Carmel NY wrote:
> I am attempting to write a simple Bash script that will find all the
> '*.pem' files in a directory structure and move them to another
> directory. 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.
> 
> This is the script:
> 
> #! /usr/bin/env bash
> 
> # Save the field separator
> oIFS=$IFS
> 
> # Set it to line breaks
> IFS=$'\n'
> 
> for i in $(find ./ -name "*.pem" -print); do
> 
> # Get the basename
> BN=$(basename $i)
> 
> # copy the file to another directory using the base name
> cp $i /usr/home/tmp/$BN
> 
> done
> 
> # Reset the IFS variable
> IFS=$oIFS
> 
> exit

That's a one-liner:

 % find . -depth -name '*.pem' -print0 | cpio -0pdmu /usr/home/tmp

Actually, that just /copies/ all of the *.pem files to the other directory
tree, so if you want to remove the original files, you'ld also need to do:

 % find . -name '*.pem' -delete 

once you're sure everything has copied across OK, and with the proviso
that '.' is neither a parent or child of /usr/home/tmp

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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