copying to a deep parallel directory

copying to a deep parallel directory

[zzapper]

Hi
Say I want to copy a file from

/var/www/html/admin/include/

to

/var/www/live/admin/include/

I can of course


cd html live

and then I can use $OLDPWD or ~+1

but is there anything niftier?

zzapper
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Re: copying to a deep parallel directory

[Jérémie Roquet]

Hi,

2013/11/6 zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk>:
> Say I want to copy a file from
>
> /var/www/html/admin/include/
>
> to
>
> /var/www/live/admin/include/
>
> I can of course
>
> cd html live
>
> and then I can use $OLDPWD or ~+1
>
> but is there anything niftier?

$PWD:s/html/live/ or ${PWD/html/live} ?

-- 
Jérémie

Re: copying to a deep parallel directory

[Peter Stephenson]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:21:23 +0000 (UTC)
zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
> Say I want to copy a file from
> 
> /var/www/html/admin/include/
> 
> to
> 
> /var/www/live/admin/include/
> 
> I can of course
> 
> 
> cd html live
> 
> and then I can use $OLDPWD or ~+1
> 
> but is there anything niftier?

So we're assuming you're in the former directory...

cp <file> ${PWD/html/live}

This syntax gets a bit messy if you're changing multiple levels
since you need to quote the slashes.

pws

Re: copying to a deep parallel directory

[zzapper]

>> Say I want to copy a file from
>> 
>> /var/www/html/admin/include/
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> /var/www/live/admin/include/
>> 

> cp <file> ${PWD/html/live}
> 
> This syntax gets a bit messy if you're changing multiple levels
> since you need to quote the slashes.
> 
> pws
> 

Thanks that's cute, I will so be using this! 
JWTDO

zzapper

Re: copying to a deep parallel directory

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Nov 06), Peter Stephenson said:
> On Wed, 06 Nov 2013 17:21:23 +0000 (UTC)
> zzapper <david@rayninfo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Say I want to copy a file from
> > 
> > /var/www/html/admin/include/
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > /var/www/live/admin/include/
> > 
> > I can of course
> > 
> > cd html live
> > 
> > and then I can use $OLDPWD or ~+1
> > 
> > but is there anything niftier?
> 
> So we're assuming you're in the former directory...
> 
> cp <file> ${PWD/html/live}
> 
> This syntax gets a bit messy if you're changing multiple levels
> since you need to quote the slashes.

I use brace expansion a lot for things like this.

cp /var/www/{html,live}/admin/include/file.html

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com