On 2006-08-24, phillip.s.powell@gmail.com wrote:
> # NOW WE COPY EVERYTHING OVER TO THE NEW FOLDERS IN $csvBackupPath
> cp -pr "$clientDocPath/*.csv" "$csvBackupPath/clientCSV"
> cp -pr "$projectDocPath/*.csv" "$csvBackupPath/projectCSV"
>
> This code I thought would simply copy everything ending in ".csv" to
> another directory, but I get the following error:
>
> No such file or directory *.csv

Filenames are not expanded inside quotes:

cp -pr "$clientDocPath/"*.csv "$csvBackupPath/clientCSV"
cp -pr "$projectDocPath/"*.csv "$csvBackupPath/projectCSV"

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