Re: how to do repetetive command in shell

[John Kennedy <skebi69@xxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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