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Rohan Gala
Rohan Gala

Reputation: 651

Copy from one location to another

export SQLFILENAME=$1

scp -prv scratch/patchtestnew/db_new_temp/*/$SQLFILENAME /scratch/patchtestnew/db_new/*/

Want to copy from one location to another but don't know the intermediate directories and hence placed * but it doesn't catch the location

There is only one directory inside db_new and db_new_temp

Upvotes: 0

Views: 39

Answers (1)

viraptor
viraptor

Reputation: 34205

This solution will work, provided that you can guarantee there's only one directory in db_new and no files. Also you should quote both the $1 and $SQLFILENAME in case they contain uncommon characters. (and you don't need scp if you're copying on the same host)

Otherwise, it's supposed to "just work". If it doesn't, try listing both locations with ls - that should give you an idea about what's going wrong.

If you can't guarantee that there's never going to be another file/directory under db_new, I'd recommend finding another way to solve the problem though. You can not only get silent failures, but also silent data loss this way.

Upvotes: 1

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