Bash script for moving directories only moving the content within directories-CodePudding

I am trying to move some directories and files within said directories to a new directory, the code I am using utilises a for loop and checks the content of a txt file which is used to determine what it is we want to move. I only insert the directory names into the txt file.

The code only seems to move the content within the directories and not the directory and it's content.

#!/bin/bash

cp "files_for_moving.txt" /Users/johndoe/project/for_moving

cd /Users/johndoe/project/for_moving

FILESFORMOVING="files_for_moving.txt"

LINES=$(cat $FILESFORMOVING)

echo $LINES

for i in $LINES
        do
        echo 'running the mover script'
        cp -R $i/ ../simple_done_updated/


done

cd /Users/johndoe/project

CodePudding user response：

You should try removing the first / from:

cp -R $i/ ../simple_done_updated/

to:

cp -R $i ../simple_done_updated/