Shell script that copies while adding a user-provided filename suffix

Question

I'm trying to write a shell script on Solaris that copies files from one directory to another. I need it to prompt the user for a date, and add that as a suffix to the destination filenames. How do I go about doing that?

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash

src="/dir1"
dest="/dir2"

read -p "Date: " date

cp -Rp "${src%/}/" "${dest}"
find "${dest}" -type f -exec mv "{}" "{}_${date}" \;

cp -Rp copies the content of src/ recursively and keeps permissions

${src%/}/" makes sure that the source directory has a trailing /, because if it doesn't, cp -R copies the directory itself instead of it's content.

Answer 2

#!/bin/bash
Dir1="/dir1"
Dir2="/dir2"

read -p "Enter Date :- " Date

# if date is not set then use system date
[[ -z $Date ]] && Date=$(date +%F)

[[ -d "${Dir1}" ]] || { echo "ERROR: $Dir1 does not exists.."; exit; } && cd $Dir1

List=( * )

for File in "${List[@]}"
do
[[ -f $File ]] && cp -Rp $File ${Dir2}/`basename ${File}`_${Date};
done