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Asked: 2026-06-09T08:36:41+00:00

I’m running Cygwin on WinXP. I have written the following shell script to copy

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I’m running Cygwin on WinXP. I have written the following shell script to copy files from a network drive to a remote server …

scp -P 9998 //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L1*TE* dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1
scp -P 9998 //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L1*SE* dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/student/ela/level1
scp -P 9998 //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L2*TE* dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level2
scp -P 9998 //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L2*SE* dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/student/ela/level2

The problem is when I run this script, occassionally I’ll get errors like the below (“No such file or directory”) and then the script will stall. 

sh copy_files.sh    
...
cb_sb_ela_miu_L1_U2_activity2_12_SE.pdf                                                                                                           100%  771KB  51.4KB/s   00:15
cb_sb_ela_miu_L1_U2_activity2_13_SE.pdf                                                                                                           100%  716KB  55.0KB/s   00:13
cb_sb_ela_miu_L1_U2_activity2_14_SE.pdf                                                                                                           100%  966KB  50.8KB/s   00:19
cb_sb_ela_miu_L1_U2_activity2_15_SE.pdf                                                                                                            71%  640KB  36.9KB/s   00:06 ETA
//tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/cb_sb_ela_miu_L1_U2_activity2_15_SE.pdf: No such file or directory

Is there a way I can get the script to continue copying files even when this error message comes up?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Try to copy one file at a time. That way, the failed copy does not kill the script and the other copies. Do this in a loop…

    for i in //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L1*TE*
do
    scp -P 9998 "$i" dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1
done

for i in //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L1*SE*
do
    scp -P 9998 "$i" dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1
done

for i in //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L2*TE*
do
    scp -P 9998 "$i" dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level2
done

for i in //tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L2*SE*
do
    scp -P 9998 "$i" dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level2
done
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