Just omit the -T parameter, as that’s what prevents the command from working properly: cp -r /home/hope/subfolder . The -T parameter treats the target argument as a file, so no copying will be performed at all if that is actually a directory. A friendly reminder: virtually all Unix commands have a –help command line argument … Read more
Use the -d option: cp -d files /var/copylinktohere/ From man cp: -d same as –no-dereference –preserve=link –no-dereference never follow symbolic links
You’ve got two problems: 1 – subprocess.call() expects a list of arguments, not multiple arguments: #wrong subprocess.call(‘cp’, in, out) #right subprocess.call([‘cp’, in, out]) 2 – in is a python reserved keyword, change it to something like inp: #wrong subprocess.call([‘cp’, in, out]) #right subprocess.call([‘cp’, inp, out])
Tell cp to remove it first. cp –remove-destination c.txt b.txt
cp can get a name of a target file: cp bla.txt ./bla2.txt Or even simpler, as Mark noted: cp bla.txt bla2.txt
Use the -exec option for find: find . -mtime -90 -exec cp {} targetdir \; -exec would copy every result returned by find to the specified directory (targetdir in the above example).
Well everyone has suggested that redirecting to /dev/null would prevent you from seeing the error, but here is another way. Test if the file exists and if it does, execute the cp command. [[ -e f.txt ]] && cp f.txt ff.txt In this case, if the first test fails, then cp will never run and … Read more
grep -l -r “TWL” –exclude=*.csv* | xargs cp -t ~/data/lidar/tmp-ajp2/ Explanation: grep -l option to output file names only xargs to convert file list from the standard input to command line arguments cp -t option to specify target directory (and avoid using placeholders)
No trailing slash on source directory You should not put a trailing slash on the source directory: The point is relevant to cp – but also to mv, where it is much more important. I’ll cite the warning from the manual – note that it’s not found in the man page, but in the info … Read more
If your source directory is set in quotes, then make sure that the * is outside the quotes, i.e. cp “source/”* dest or cp “source”/* dest