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I have a pipeline that needs to copy some files from a folder to a new one only if the files exists in the source folder.

This is my script line:

script:
    - cp source_folder/file.txt dest_folder/ 2>/dev/null

I have also tried this:

script:
    - test -f source_folder/file.txt && cp source_folder/file.txt dest_folder/ 2>/dev/null

but still fails if the file do not exists.

Cleaning up project directory and file based variables.
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1

How can I check the file and copy it only if exists?

EDIT:
this command is executed on a server, the pipeline use ssh to log into

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Check for the existence of the file (-f) and, in positive case, copy it.

script:
  - |
    files=(conf.yaml log.txt)

    for file in $files; do
      if [[ -f "source_folder/$file" ]]; then
        cp source_folder/$file dest_folder
      fi
    done

Take a look at other answers for one-shot less-flexible statements.

Note: I haven't tested the script above, but I'm quite accustomed with Gitlab pipeline and bash.

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Hi Davide, thanks for the message. I've tried the code and edited in this way the cp row: ssh christian@$SERVER_IP "cd ~/$SITE_FOLDER; cp public/$file temp/" but it does not copy the file and no error is shown
I have a doubt: should the destination folder be temp (which means ./temp) or should it be /temp?
temp is at the same level of public so maybe I should use ./temp
Try to do it manually with the same bunch of commands: first try to access the server with cli (if possible), then try to use ssh (still manually).
I can access the server with ssh and cli, the pipeline runs different commands before this one on the server. I have tried to run cp public/conf.yml temp and it copy the file

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