Command to copy range of files.

[Gulam Mohiuddin]

I am copying files with the following command which works fine.

cp fsprod_arch_70{36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43}.log /arch01/fsprod

I need to mention range of values like [36-43]but the follwing commands are not working:

cp fsprod_arch_70{36-43}.log /arch01/fsprod
cp fsprod_arch_70[36-43].log /arch01/fsprod

Any idea how to specify ranage of values?

Thanks,

Gulam.

[Pete Randall]

You would need to specify it like this:

cp sprod_arch_70[3-4][6-3].log /arch01/fsprod


Pete

[Pete Randall]

I'll take that back, the [6-3] won't work so you'll have to specify [3-4][67890123]


Pete

[john korterman]

Hi,

on a single line you probably have to something like this:

# cp fsprod_arch_703[6-9].log fsprod_arch_704[0-6].log /arch01/fsprod

regards,
John K.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Actually, Pete's recommendation won't get you what you want. You'll be getting 30 through 49 instead of 36 through 43. Only way to do this dynamically I can think of is to use a loop:

LOW=36
HIGH=43
INDEX=${LOW}

while [ ${INDEX} -le ${HIGH} ]
do
FILELIST="${FILELIST} fsprod_arch_70${INDEX}.log"
done

cp ${FILELIST} /arch01/fsprod

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I think this while loop may be executing for a rather long time:

while [ ${INDEX} -le ${HIGH} ]
do
FILELIST="${FILELIST} fsprod_arch_70${INDEX}.log"
done

It might benefit from an increment of ${INDEX} somewhere.

[Jeff_Traigle]

Yeah, that is very true. This should do much better.

LOW=36
HIGH=43
INDEX=${LOW}

while [ ${INDEX} -le ${HIGH} ]
do
FILELIST="${FILELIST} fsprod_arch_70${INDEX}.log"
INDEX=$((${INDEX}+1))
done

cp ${FILELIST} /arch01/fsprod

That'll teach me to type in a hurry. (Well, ok, probably not.) :)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Gulam:

If we are going to loop and increment, it's faster to use integer arithmetic by declaring our variables with 'typeset'. Too, we only need a LOW and a HIGH variable.

#!/usr/bin/sh
typeset -i LOW=36
typeset -i HIGH=43
while (( LOW <= HIGH ))
do
cp fsprod_arch_70${LOW}.log /arch01/fsprod
(( LOW=${LOW}+1 ))
done
exit 0

Regards!

...JRF...