Shell 脚本：将带有通配符 (*) 的文件从一个文件夹复制到另一个文件夹

Question

A very simple question but bothers me. I want to copy all files in one folder to another folder in a shell script. Like this:

#!/bin/sh
cp data/* /tmp/data

But got error: zsh:1: no matches found: data/*

Reading various posts on stackoverflow, like here: Copying files with wildcard (*) to a folder in a bash script - why isn't it working? I have tried:

cp "data"/* /tmp/data
Error: zsh:1: no matches found: data/*
cp -r data /tmp/data
Error cp: cannot stat `data': No such file or directory

I could verify data folder contains files, and I'm in the parent directory data folder. If I do ls data in the script, the contents of it are correctly printed.

Could anyone help? I'm using zsh.

Answer 1

I think the command you are looking for might be cp -r data /tmp/ . It will create the data directory in /tmp/ .

Answer 2

$ cp "data/*" /tmp/data

它对我有用。