Question

I need to copy files from one directory to another (pretty obvious 🙂 ) but I want to store list of files that were copied with destination path. So let’s say I have:
/mnt/a/f1
/mnt/a/f2

and I want to copy all files from ‘a’ to root so I do:
cp -rv /mnt/a/* /

output from cp I will have will look like:

`/mnt/a/f1` -> `/f1`

`/mnt/a/f2` -> `/f2`


and now I want to store in some file list that will looks like:


/f1

/f2


Does somebody know how can I achieve such output?

Answer 1

cp -rv /mnt/a/* / 2>&1 | cut -d\` -f4 | tee thefile.txt

Something like this (untested).