Pipe and read per line: ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do cp -v "$line" /elsewhere # substitute with something fancy # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$li

Pipe and read per line: ls /mnt/dir | while read line; do cp -v "$line" /elsewhere # substitute with something fancy # [ $? -eq 0 ] || cp -v "$line" /elsewhere done