To use this graphical interface do as directed below:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 | #!/bin/bash ############################## # Author - Kulbir Saini # # Home - http://saini.co.in/ # ############################## if [ $1 == -i ] || [ $1 == -f ];then if [ ! -s $2 ] && [ ! -f $2 ] && [ ! -d $2 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "file:$2 doesn't exist.\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ ! $3 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "Invalid arguements...\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ -d $3 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "$3: is a directory.\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ -d $2 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "$2: is a directory.\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ -s $3 -o -f $3 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --yesno "Do you want to overwrite file:$3" 10 60; select=$? case $select in 0) echo -e "i'm ordered to overwrite file:$3 \noverwriting...\noverwritten file:$3" ; cp -f $2 $3 ;; 1) echo "i'm ordered not to overwrite.";; 255) echo "cancelled by you by pressing [Esc].";; esac else dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --yesno "Do you want to copy the file:$2 to file:$3" 10 60 ; select1=$? case $select1 in 0) echo -e "i'm ordered to copy file:$2 to file:$3 \ncopying...\ncopied to file:$3" ; cp $2 $3 ;; 1) echo "i'm ordered not to copy.";; 255) echo "cancelled by you by pressing [Esc].";; esac fi elif [ ! -s $1 ] && [ ! -f $1 ] && [ ! -d $1 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "file:$1 doesn't exist.\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ ! $2 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "Invalid arguements...\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ -d $2 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "$2: is a directory.\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ -d $1 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --infobox "$1: is a directory.\nCan't copy...\nPress any key..." 5 30; read elif [ -s $2 -o -f $2 ];then dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --yesno "Do you want to overwrite file:$2" 10 60; select=$? case $select in 0) echo -e "i'm ordered to overwrite file:$2 \noverwriting...\noverwritten file:$2" ; cp -f $1 $2 ;; 1) echo "i'm ordered not to overwrite.";; 255) echo "cancelled by you by pressing [Esc].";; esac else dialog --title "Copy daemon" --backtitle "copy:" --yesno "Do you want to copy the file:$1 to file:$2" 10 60 ; select1=$? case $select1 in 0) echo -e "i'm ordered to copy file:$1 to file:$2 \ncopying...\ncopied to file:$2" ; cp $1 $2 ;; 1) echo "i'm ordered not to copy.";; 255) echo "cancelled by you by pressing [Esc].";; esac fi |
1. Get the script here .
2. Move it to a file named ‘copy’.
3. Create a director ‘bin’ in your home directory.
4. Write
export PATH=$PATH:${HOME }/bin/ |
to your ~/.bashrc file.
5. Execute .bashrc by issuing
[saini@localhost ~]# . .bashrc |
6. If you want to copy a file foo.txt to bar.txt then do it as
[saini@localhost ~]# copy foo.txt bar.txt [Enter] |
Done.