Ubuntu – How to copy and paste a file

In sed, assuming your list is in a file called file, you could use:

sed -n '/ss: /N;s/\n//;s/IP address:/This computer ip address is/;s/Computer name:/ and is under the name/p' file

• -n don't print anything until we ask for it
• /ss: / find the pattern ss: (to match the lines with IP address:)
• N read the next line too so we can join them
• ; separates commands, like in the shell
• s/old/new/ replace old with new
• s/\n// delete the newline between the two lines
• p print the lines we've worked on

When you see what you want, repeat the command adding > newfile at the end of it to write the modified file to newfile

More readably:

sed -n '{
    /ss: /N
    s/\n//
    s/IP address:/This computer ip address is/
    s/Computer name:/ and is under the name/p
}' file | tee newfile

(tee helpfully writes to the newfile and displays the output at the same time)

Assuming that:

• The folders to be copied and their files are under /home/gcgm/myfolders
• The output folder is /tmp/output-folder

If you need to copy all files to another folder, you can do the following:

mkdir /tmp/output-folder
cd /home/gcgm/myfolders
cp */* /tmp/output-folder

The meaning of */* in the this commandcp / target` is:

• Take all files (the 2nd *) in all directories (the first *) under the current directory.