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GNHLUG Web>TipsAndTricks>TatBash (2011-07-22, LloydKvam) (raw view)

How do you paste some file names into your terminal console and process them when they are separated by new-lines?

I thought the solution would be to group them somehow using () or {} or [], but none of those worked for me.  Finally I tried using quotes and that did the trick.

<pre>
for f in '/usr/share/doc/python-soaplib/examples/async.py
/usr/share/doc/python-soaplib/examples/binary.py
/usr/share/doc/python-soaplib/examples/override.py' ; do cp $f .; done
</pre>

This processes one file at a time using a for-loop.  The loop variable is f.
Semi-colons separate the commands.  do and done mark the loop boundaries.

The key-strokes to accomplish this, after the file names had been copied into the buffer were:

=for f in '{shift-control-v}' ; do cp $f .; done=

where {shift-control-v} means to press Shift and Ctrl and V together, much as you'd do for a capital V, but also holding down the Ctrl key.

-- %MAINWEB%.LloydKvam - 11 Dec 2010

Topic revision: r2 - 2011-07-22 - LloydKvam

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