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Also, your script assumes the output of find wont overflow a list.

I assume that is a problem?

I did:

find .... > /tmp/files
cat /tmp/files | while read orig_path
do
...
done

Isn't that safer than your approach?

Greg


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:50:48 -0500, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 
> > To do that, I need to create a variable dest_file_name that takes the
> > '/' and replaces them with '-' chars.  I know you can do that in the
> > shell, but I've forgotten how.
> 
> How about a single for script to do it all?
> 
> Set DIR and PATTERN appropriately...
> 
> for fn in $(find DIR -name PATTERN -print); do
> print cp $fn $(echo $fn|tr '/' '-')
> done
> 
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