New script (to copy files)

[Intothenewworld]

I would like to have a new script to perform the below task .

I have a file called dummy.txt , the content of this file is as below .

aaa.prn
bbb.prn
ccc.prn

I would like to have a script which can do

1) check dummy.txt
2) then copy these files ( but with other extension .xls ) from a specify directory to another server
   eg. scp the files /tmp/aaa.xls , /tmp/bbb.xls , /tmp/ccc.xls to /tmp of another server

can advise what can i do ?

thanks in advance.

[Dennis Handly]

You could do something like:

for file in $(< dummy.txt); do

   base=${file%.prn}   # strip suffix

   scp /tmp/$base.xls remote:/tmp

done

[Intothenewworld]

it works , but may I have two additional requirement .

1) actually , the file name in dummy.txt have two type of prefix , one is xxx ( eg. xxxfile.prn ) , another one is yyy ( yyyfile.prn ) , if the file is xxx , then copy to /tmp of  another server , if the file is yyy then copy to /tmp1 of another server , can advise what can i do ?

2) scp works fine to copy to remote server , can advise how to check and display if the scp is successful on the screen or not ?

thx

[Dennis Handly]

>1) the filename in dummy.txt have two type of prefix, one is xxx (eg. xxxfile.prn), another one is yyy (yyyfile.prn), if the file is xxx , then copy to /tmp of another server, if the file is yyy then copy to /tmp1 of another server?

>2) can advise how to check and display if the scp is successful on the screen or not?

Did you want to remove that prefix?  I'm not doing it here.

for file in $(< dummy.txt); do

   base=${file%.prn}   # strip suffix

   if [[ $base = xxx* ]]; then

      server=server1

      tmp=/tmp

   elif [[ $base = yyy* ]]; then

      server=server2

      tmp=/tmp1

   else

      echo "Not sure where to send $file" 1>&2

      continue

   fi

   scp /tmp/$base.xls $server:$tmp

   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then

      echo "scp failed to copy $file" 1>&2

   fi

done