Comments on: UNIX/AWK Tricks: How to copy a long list of files into a directory http://www.ruddwire.com/999/tech/unixawk-tricks/ Ruddwire.com: food, book, theatre reviews, data presentation projects, code snippets, millisecond date calculators Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:53:39 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Don Joe http://www.ruddwire.com/999/tech/unixawk-tricks/comment-page-1/#comment-15150 Don Joe Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:22:04 +0000 http://www.ruddwire.com/?p=999#comment-15150 Or you could just do everything with awk and use system(). { system("cp \"" $0 "\" images") } The \" are so that the $0 argument is getting surrounded by "" 's so that if there are any spaces in the path, then the copy will still work. Or you could just do everything with awk and use system().
{ system(”cp \”" $0 “\” images”) }
The \” are so that the $0 argument is getting surrounded by “” ’s so that if there are any spaces in the path, then the copy will still work.

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