copying currentfile

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Dear Experts

in my system after some time the new file is generating
ans the naming convention can be of any type of that file
so what i need i just want to make a script which will run and copy the current file to my folder cany any one tell me how to do this ...........

take care
Regards,
shary

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you could acheive this by 2 methods. first one with the find command and the second one with the ls command. you could try the option

find <Path to search> -mtime <current time> -name * -print {}|xargs cp <target foldername>

Note: In the above command event the sub directories would be included

or


ls -ltr <path> >result # this will give you the last line as the most recent file
sed -n '$p' <path/filename>| awk '{print $9}' | read filename#this will give you the filename
cp filename <target folder>
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Dear Experts

i am already in that director where i want the latest file.
so i am using this command but its not working properly can any body tell me whats wrong in this.
#ls -lrt|sed -n '$p' |awk '{print $9}' |read abc |cp abc /home/SHARY/

but after executing this command it will give the message
cp :cannot stat 'abc' :no such file or directory

please correct the syntax

Regards,
shary

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cat file | tee $OLDPWD
cat file > $OLDPWD

this should work from where ever you are in the database. if you hit cd <enter>
this will place you in your home directory. from there type the word set

you might do a set | page you can view it slowly. Look for OLDPWD this is where it will be placed :wink:

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cp "$(ls -t|head -1)" /your/dir

If you have no spaces (or other pathological characters)
in the file names, you can do it like this:

set -- $(ls -t)
cp "$1" /your/dir
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You could as well try the absolute path this way
cp <source folder name>/$filename <target Dir Name>