Copy entire content from a folder to another in shell script
None of these answers worked for me for recursive copy. Found this in a script in one of my libraries and thought I'd share it (with a subfolder example for both the source and destination, which is what I needed):
SOURCE="/my/folder"DESTINATION="/my/destination"cp -r "$SOURCE/subdir/"* "$DESTINATION/another_sub/"With this, every subfolder and every file was copied.
I don't know why but the asterisk outside the quotes in the source did the magic for me (using bash 4.3.11 here)
Your file contains carriage returns, which is why you're getting these trashed error messages. Use tr -d '\r' <yourscript >fixedscript to get rid of them.
As for your script, the correct way to do it is
#!/bin/shcp /data/app/*.apk /sdcard/prova1While the smallest fix to make your version work is
#!/bin/shsrcdir="/data/app"dstdir="/sdcard/prova1"for f in ${srcdir}/*.apkdo cp $f $dstdirdone