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cp: omitting directory, for copying only files, sed
- From: David <dbj at vip dot cybercity dot dk>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:15:45 +0100
- Subject: cp: omitting directory, for copying only files, sed
I have a script:
#!/bin/bash
W="\/cygdrive\/c\/Users\/dbj\/workspace\/$1\/."
echo $W
sed -n 's/^File[ ]*\([^ ][^ ]*\).*/\"\1\" '"$W"'/p' < $2 | xargs cp
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"?
The content of list.txt is
$ cat list.txt
list of file
File ..\test\file1.txt
File ..\test\file2.txt
end
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