[GRLUG] file backup script

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:58:56PM -0400, Nathan Drier wrote:
> Ive been battling with this all day,  so I thought id ask the list for any
> ideas:
>
> I have a text list of about 17,000 files that I need to consolidate into 
> one
> folder.  All these files are spread through a folder structure on a mapped
> drive.  I need to write a script that will read the filenames from the text
> file,  then search recursively through the mapped drive for them.  If the
> file exists somewhere on the mapped drive,  I need it to be copied to a
> local folder where I can run them all through a converter.  Any ideas?

I would use perl and read the list of files into a hash.  The File::Find 
module should get the job done for the main part of the search.  It 
calls a user function for each file found, so you could immediately copy 
or save the file to an array.

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Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com>