Write a shell that receives as parameters two folder names. Copies the
second folder as subfolder into the first one. Only folders and files
with the '.txt' extension will be copied. Detect and avoid recursive copy.
This is what I have to do and I don't know where to start. In fact, I started actually by writing this:
#!/bin/bash
#Write a shell that receives as parameters two folder names. Copies the
#second folder as subfolder into the first one. Only folders and files
#with the .txt extension will be copied. Detect and avoid recursive copy!
if [ ! $# -eq 2 ]
then echo usage: shell.sh Folder name Folder name
exit 1
fi
# Check if the first parameter is a directory name
if [ ! -d $1 ]
then echo $1 is not a folder\!
exit 1
fi
# Check if the second parameter is a directory name
if [ ! -d $2 ]
then echo $2 is not a folder\!
exit 1
fi
Now I have to actually solve the problem 
Read your man page of cp.
I've read it, but I'm still stuck. I'm trying something like
for fis in `find $f2 -name '*.txt'`; do
echo $fis #use some copy command here instead, echo just for test
done
but I can't get rid of the recursive search and that is what I am supposed to avoid.
Not necessary to use the find command use ls to loop through the current directory:
for fis in *.txt
Could you write the whole script Franklin? I'm :wall:
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