korn shell / filenames and directories with spaces

[strinh]

Hopefully somebody can help me out. I'm having trouble copying files as my source directory has spaces in them.

Example:
cp -m "//server1/directory 1/filename1" "//server2/directory 2/filename2"

using wildcards
cp -m "//server1/directory 1/*.filetype" "//server2/directory 2/"

I get the file not file error. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

[wowbag1]

Use cp with the -r option
cp -r "folder one/" "folder two/"

[strinh]

Use cp with the -r option
cp -r "folder one/" "folder two/"

I don't want to move all the files though. Is there another option?

[wowbag1]

You could use for example for C files;

cp *.c "home/fred/folder one/"
this copies only C files

[scm]

cp -m "//server1/directory 1/*.filetype" "//server2/directory 2/"

I get the file not file error. Does anybody have any suggestions? Thanks in advance!

Easiest way, if you have to have spaces in your filenames, is do the files individually:

for a in "/server1/directory 1/*.filetype"
do
    cp -p "$a" "/server2/directory 2"
done

The -p preserves file ownerships and permissions, if you need to do that.