bash - How do I correct this UNIX command for copying files into a directory? -

i have following command not work

while read line; ls $line | head -10 | cp xargs dest_folder; done < my_file.txt 

the objective have file named my_file.txt contains name of folder on every line. want copy 10 files each of directories mentioned on every line of file dest_folder.

how can correct above command?

you cand achive following bash script:

#!/bin/bash  # first argument filename contains ton each line name of folder # teh second argument destination folder  while ifs='' read -r line || [[ -n "$line" ]];     filestocopy=($(ls $line |head -n 10))     in "${filestocopy[@]}"             :         cp $line/$i $2     done  done < "$1" 

usage:

chmod +x your_bash_script ./your_bash_script my_file.txt dest_folder 

note:

the folder names inside file should absolute paths.