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[arivas_2005]

Greetings !
I can not copy file to group using variables (using asterisk)

I have

files in folder dirOr:
la le li.jpg
la lo li.jpg
lu le li.jpg

# variables
dirOr="/Z seccion"
dirDs="/S seccion"
file1="/Z seccion/la le li.jpg"
filet="/Z seccion/*li.jpg"

a) copy ---------------
cp -- "$file1" "$dirDs"
# Using the name of each file I can copy OK
but
Using asterisk
cp -- "$filet" "$dirDs"
show message
cp: cannot stat ‘/Z s seccion/*li.jpg’: No such file or directory

How can I copy into groups using an asterisk in the variable ?


b) remove? ---------------------
rm -- "$file1" ## remove OK
but
rm -- "$filet"
show message
rm: unrecognized option '--/Z s seccion/*li.jpg'

Thanks !

[musher0]

Hello arivas_2005.

Off the top of my head:

-- do you absolutely need the double-dash on the cp command line? If you
don't need it, it can get confusing to use it.

-- As you wrote it in your message above, "/Z section" means a directory
named "Z section" at the very top ("/") of your Linux directories. Is this
really the case?

Any copy of your variable for "/Z section" will fail because only one
directory can be named "Z section" at "/". The cp command will normally
refuse to copy any file or directory over itself.

Another reason why we avoid diagonal bars in file names and variables is:
-- the right-sloped diagonal bar ("/") is used by the Linux and Unix
systems as delimiter for directories. For ex, you will type

[MochiMoppel]

[arivas_2005]

Thanks MochiMoppel
It's a very fine solution
Thank you again

Almost at the same time and After hours of experiment and google built an option.
But it is very hard ( and the way of MochiMoppel is very easy)

Place the * outside the string
Example:

[arivas_2005]

regards

I relive the problem of using parameters in variable.
I have again the problem of inserting parameters with * such as -name "* .txt" as variable of find ./ $ parameter,
Example:

[MochiMoppel]

CONDITION=" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name \"*.txt\""
eval find ./ $CONDITION

[arivas_2005]

Thanks for the prompt response
I comment. use find ver 4.4.2
and

the segment -name \"*.txt\"" in
eval find ./ $CONDITION
not work in my computer. I use tahrpup version 6.0.6
error:
find: ` -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.txt"': No such file or directory
and shows the entire list without filter only txt
my lab script is:

[MochiMoppel]

It works for the example you posted and asked help for.
In the example you posted you must surround the stuff after '=' with quotes and you must escape the double quotes within the surrounding double quotes.

If you use Xdialog you must not do this.
When using Xdialog inputbox this would result in the error you mentioned:

[arivas_2005]

my sincere thanks for the support!