a quick question about cp

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-20 04:34:48

I only want to copy files...
when you copy the entire content of a directory which contains files and subdirectories, you get the following message (without recursion of course):

cp: omitting directory `blablabla'

is there a way to "mute" this message? i know i can redirect stdout and stderr, but i thought there must be a more efficient way. or better yet can i supply all the normal files in the dir as cp's arguments instead of *? if so, how?

thanks

fukawi2 · 2009-03-20 04:58:44

What is inefficient about redirecting stderr? Apart from obviously missing out on any other error messages...

Can you give us an example of the problem -- I don't quite understand what you're trying to achieve...

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-20 05:09:20

i'm trying to copy all the files in a directory without copying the sub-directories
examaple:

[sulaiman@PINK ~]$ mkdir ./tester 
[sulaiman@PINK ~]$ mkdir ./tester/sub-test
[sulaiman@PINK ~]$ mkdir ./tester/sub-test2
[sulaiman@PINK ~]$ cd tester
[sulaiman@PINK tester]$ touch a s d f g
[sulaiman@PINK tester]$ ls
a  d  f  g  s  sub-test  sub-test2
[sulaiman@PINK tester]$ cp * sub-test
cp: omitting directory `sub-test'
cp: omitting directory `sub-test2'
[sulaiman@PINK tester]$

i don't want to copy the dirs in the first place but specifying the files one by one is not an option

bangkok_manouel · 2009-03-20 06:53:55

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-20 07:16:30

wtf?!!

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-20 07:17:33

guys, seriously.. i need to know.
ps: funny, just got it. nice one bangkok_manouel

Last edited by SIGTERMer (2009-03-20 07:22:49)

djgera · 2009-03-20 07:40:58

For example... but do a more work, many syscalls.

find -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '.*' -exec cp {} hola/ \;

hola/ is a directory.
! -name ',*' omits dot-files (hidden files)
-type f only find regular files
-maxdepth 1 , don't recurse

The "osito" is funny hahah
(osito == bear)

fumbles · 2009-03-20 07:41:23

see above

Last edited by fumbles (2009-03-20 07:43:51)

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-20 07:49:47

from the looks of it, i'll go with redirecting. loops & find are the exact opesite of what i was looking for. but thanks anyways

sand_man · 2009-03-20 12:04:30

bangkok_manouel wrote:

http://xs137.xs.to/xs137/09125/pedobear109.png

I see what you did there

Misfit138 · 2009-03-20 13:14:51

Sandman, I just have to ask. I have been struggling to figure out your avatar now for quite some time.
Is it a fist wrapped in bandages?

foxbunny · 2009-03-20 13:24:04

SIGTERMer wrote:

from the looks of it, i'll go with redirecting. loops & find are the exact opesite of what i was looking for. but thanks anyways

You could just create an alias for the command suggested above your post, and then use that if you don't like to miss other errors.

alias cpnd="find -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '.*' -exec cp {} hola/ \;"

Hmm... now that I look at it, the alias is not correct. Maybe a bash script would be better, though.

Last edited by foxbunny (2009-03-20 13:27:41)

haxit · 2009-03-20 15:44:49

bangkok_manouel wrote:

http://xs137.xs.to/xs137/09125/pedobear109.png

I still don't get this completely.

Ghost1227 · 2009-03-20 17:05:15

Misfit138 wrote:

Sandman, I just have to ask. I have been struggling to figure out your avatar now for quite some time.
Is it a fist wrapped in bandages?

Looks like two people holding hands to me...

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-20 17:14:36

haxit wrote:

bangkok_manouel wrote:
http://xs137.xs.to/xs137/09125/pedobear109.png
I still don't get this completely.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6wtATgJRs & touch(1)... you put them together

why am i feeling like a 12 year old?

Last edited by SIGTERMer (2009-03-20 17:19:16)

haxit · 2009-03-20 17:52:02

SIGTERMer wrote:

haxit wrote:
bangkok_manouel wrote:
http://xs137.xs.to/xs137/09125/pedobear109.png
I still don't get this completely.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh6wtATgJRs & touch(1)... you put them together
why am i feeling like a 12 year old?

That is what I thought....

Dieter@be · 2009-03-20 18:01:01

lol @ pedobear

reminds a bit of the "Sexual Harassment Panda" from South Park

kgas · 2009-03-21 12:33:34

+1 Bangkog_manouel

Hello SIGTERmer this is the behaviour of cp and google search will give tons of results One way to avoid this error is to redirect the error as fukawi2 said. The other way is to write your own bash script. I wrote a quick script and if you need you can polish it.
Note: For directory entry don't use any / or wild card characters at the end ie blah/* or bla/ only use path/to/directroy

#! /bin/bash
# copies only files from the source directory
# to the target directory....
#
#checks the source and Target
#

if [  "$1" == "" ]  && [ "$2"=="" ];

  then

     echo " Usage: cpnd <Source Directory> <Target Directroy> "
    exit 0

fi

if [ ! -d $1 ] ;

  then

    echo " $1 is not a Directory" 

     exit 1

 fi

 if  [ ! -d $2 ];

   then

    echo "$2 is not a Directory"

     exit 2

fi

echo Preparing for copying....

   Target=$2    

 for x in  $(ls  $1);

   do

   source=$1/$x

 
  if [ ! -d $source ]; then

      cp   $source $2

        
       fi


  done
   
    echo File copying completed...

 exit 0

.

Last edited by kgas (2009-03-21 12:35:58)

SIGTERMer · 2009-03-21 14:24:23

kgas wrote:

+1 Bangkog_manouel
Hello SIGTERmer this is the behaviour of cp and google search will give tons of results One way to avoid this error is to redirect the error as fukawi2 said. The other way is to write your own bash script. I wrote a quick script and if you need you can polish it.
Note: For directory entry don't use any / or wild card characters at the end ie blah/* or bla/ only use path/to/directroy
#! /bin/bash
# copies only files from the source directory
# to the target directory....
#
#checks the source and Target
#

if [  "$1" == "" ]  && [ "$2"=="" ];

  then

     echo " Usage: cpnd <Source Directory> <Target Directroy> "
    exit 0

fi

if [ ! -d $1 ] ;

  then

    echo " $1 is not a Directory" 

     exit 1

 fi

 if  [ ! -d $2 ];

   then

    echo "$2 is not a Directory"

     exit 2

fi

echo Preparing for copying....

   Target=$2    

 for x in  $(ls  $1);

   do

   source=$1/$x

 
  if [ ! -d $source ]; then

      cp   $source $2

        
       fi


  done
   
    echo File copying completed...

 exit 0

.

kgas, i was looking for something more in the line of * (a wild card for regular files) but it seems that the most officiant way is to simply copy everything and ignore the warnings (/dev/null). but thanks anyways

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