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Trying to copy a list of files

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Juanito:
I'm faced with trying to copy about a 1000 jpg files from 10,000 of other files from a windows hd.

Of course the windows folders have spaces in the folder names, but why will this work:
--- Code: ---sudo cp --parents "/mnt/nfs/backup/DOCUMENTS/dumb windows folder name/dumb file name.jpg" /mnt/public-wd/temp
--- End code ---

and this will not work:
--- Code: ---for F in `cat files`; do sudo cp --parents "$F" /mnt/public-wd/temp; done
--- End code ---

..where files contains a list of the 1000 jpg files enclosed in "", eg "/mnt/nfs/backup/DOCUMENTS/dumb windows folder name/dumb file name.jpg"

..any pointers would be much appreciated

TaoTePuh:
Maybe you are looking for :


--- Code: ---export IFS=
--- End code ---

Lee:
I think it is because

--- Code: ---for F in `cat files` ....
--- End code ---

breaks on spaces as well as on line breaks.  Try something like this


--- Code: ---cat files |while read F ; do {
...
} done
--- End code ---

Juanito:
thanks - I got the job done with tar

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