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HEEELLLLPPPP!!!!
I've been developing a basic suite of apps to get to know Shell Scripting in Fedora 1 Linux. I have 2 applications done and bug-free, but my third is no... here is the code:

#-------------Credits------------

# (C) 2005 Kid Kompany

# Written by Chris Szentkiralyi

# v1.5

#--------------------------------

#!/bin/sh



makeDir() {

        if mkdir "_$dir"

        then

                echo "Directory _$dir created..."

        else

                echo "ERROR: Directory could not be created"

        fi

}

changeDir() {

        if cd "_$dir"

        then

                echo "Directory changed to $dir"

        else

                ECHO "ERROR: Directory could not be changed"

        fi

}

copyFiles() {

        if cp *.* _$dir

        then

                echo "Files copied to _$dir"

        else

                echo "ERROR: Could not copy files to _$dir"

        fi

}

read dir

makeDir

changeDir

copyFiles

The problem is that I can't seem to get the copyFiles() function to work right. It won't let me use '*.*' to copy all of the files... and I am out of ideas. PLEASE HELP!!!

just try a * and not *.* not all files in linux have a ext so just do the * :)

Oh... but this is an all-perpouse utitlity... so what happens if it ran into, say, 'file.ext'? Would the * work for that? Or would it have to be *.*?

It works whether or not the file has an extension. Go for it.

OK. Thanks, Ooble and big_k105!

NOTE: I can't edit my first post to add [solved]... the EDIT buttons are on my other posts, but not the first one...

Great.... the files were copied... and it works. But it still gives me this:

cp: cannot stat `*': No such file or directory

Like I said... the utility works, but an error is still displayed.