script output

[Ramu66]

I've the following script

integer ctr=0

cat files.txt | while read line

do
(( ctr+=1 ))
if [[ ctr -ne 1 ]]
then

cp $(print $line | cut -f2 -d' ')  /home/csis/rajus/test 


fi
done
[code]

which is supposed to copy filename red from another file
to a directory specified. It is doing it, but still
it gives me a n output mentoning the usage of cp command.
if i send that output to /dev/null it fine. But
how to avoid it in the first place

thanks

 

[PHV]

Can you please post the contents of files.txt ?
Anyway, you may try something like this:
head +2l files.txt | while read a file
do cp "$file" /home/csis/rajus/test
done


Hope This Helps, PH.
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[Ramu66]

here is the content of the file

filenumber filename
1 test.txt
2 test1.txt

 

[johngiggs]

I think this should suit your needs:

#!/usr/bin/ksh

cp $(awk 'NR>1 {print $2}' files.txt) /home/csis/rajus/test

John

 

[Ramu66]

Thanks