Question

I am facing a copy command problem while executing shell script in RHEL 5.

executed command is

cp -fp /fir1/dir2/*/bin/file1 `find . -name file1 -print`

error is

cp: Target ./6e0476aec9667638c87da1b17b6ccf46/file1 must be a directory

Would you please throw some ideas why it would be failing?

Thanks
Robert.

Answer 1

You cannot copy multiple multiple files to a file, only to a directory, i.e.

cp file1 file2 file2 file4 

is not possible, you need

cp file1 file2 file2 dir1