On Oct 21, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Pintér Tibor wrote:

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USER1="roland" USER2="dany" USER3="kevin"

cp -r /opt/$USER1/test /backup/$USER1 cp -r /opt/$USER2/test /backup/$USER2

$ for user in one two three four; do echo $user; done one two three four

or if the list of users is in a file, one per line

$ cat file roland dany kevin $ $ cat file | while read name do something $name done

Tony

Damn...I will get this right...Need more sleep...

for i in `ls -d /opt/* | cut -d/ -f3` do cp /opt/${i}/test/ /backup/${i} done

I KNOW this one will work...If not, I quit!!! John

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 14:55, John Kennedy skebi69@gmail.com wrote:

Not quite right...

for i in `ls -d /opt | cut -d/ -f2` do cp /opt/${i}/test/ /backup/${i} done

Takes out the /opt/ from my first try... John

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 14:51, John Kennedy skebi69@gmail.com wrote:

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for i in `ls -d /opt` do cp /opt/${i}/test/ /backup/${i} done

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 14:45, Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.comwrote:

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Dear all,

i'm writing a certain script which does a specific task in a repetitive manner, i'm going to give a similar script with the same concept hope you could advise me to a better way:

USER1="roland" USER2="dany" USER3="kevin"

cp -r /opt/$USER1/test /backup/$USER1 cp -r /opt/$USER2/test /backup/$USER2

such a command would be repeated 832 times (this is just an example) so instead of copying the above line 832 times and appending that user's number in each "$USER"

is there a way to do it in a smarter way ?

thanks,

--Rolad

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