Fedora Shell Scripting

[xFactor]

Hello, i am new and idk if i am right category...

well, i want help in shell scripting in Fedora14

I want a script
"Find in curent folder for files, and it copy first file he find with name gived by user, if name already exist then echo error message and finish"

command usage " bash scriptname copyASname"

smthing like

#!/bin/bash
for files in /home/user/*
do
  if [ -f $files ] 
    then
       echo "Start copying..."
       cp $file $1
  fi
done

this is very simple script and dont work, $1 means SaveName $File means First file he find.
soz for my bad english ... :/

[Lakshmipathi]

Sorry, I don't understand your requirement. For example If you have 3 files in /home/user named as "a.txt b.txt and c.txt" and want to save as "alpha.txt"

For your script will do this -
first cp a.txt alpha.txt
then
cp b.txt alpha.txt
finally
cp c.txt alpha.txt