Copying a list of files

vegan_vicky

I have a directory which has plenty of files which need to be copied over to another directory. Remember, not all files need to be copied, only some of them. Is there a way I can come up with a script to copy all these needed files from one directory to another instead of doing one by one?

Originally asked by mywayz on Stack Exchange (unix) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

Given your comment on user79914's response (" Unfortunately, the files do not have similar names… "), it sounds like you'll have to explicitly list the files you want copied in a regular old cp command. Something like the following should do the job: cp FILE_1 FILE_2 FILE_3 /destination/directory If, for instance, your copy operation is one you'll be doing more than once, you could do something like the following: for FILE in $(cat ./list_of_files.txt) do cp ${FILE} /destination/directory done This example assumes that you've added the list of desired files to the text file list_of_files.txt . The benefit of this approach, especially if you're having to perform the copy more than once, is...

Full answer by alex_crow: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/527107 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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