Question

Let’s say you have a first.sh file in a directory: “/home/userbob/scripts/foo/”. Basically I would like to know how to loop through specific directories, each time going back up to a higher level directory and repeating.

The .sh file has something like this pseudocode:

#!/bin/bash
curdi={$PATH} #where the first.sh file sits on the server
FOLDERS="$curdi/waffles/inner/
$curdi/pancakes/inner/
$curdi/bagels/inner/"
for f in $FOLDERS
do
    cd $f
     cp innerofinner/* .
     cd $curdi
done

The idea is to somehow copy all the contents of /home/userbob/scripts/foo/waffles/inner/innerofinner to /home/userbob/scripts/foo/waffles/inner/
(and basically repeating just with the path having pancakes, bagels.etc.)

Can’t do it for all directories (*) under /home/userbob/scripts/foo/ because there are some that I don’t want to copy.

Answer 1

This should do it:

for name in waffles pancakes bagels
do
    cp "$curdi/$name/inner/innferofinner/"* "$curdi/waffles/inner"
done