How do i make multiple copies of a file in the command line?

Tinkster · 08-25-2008, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CoffeeKing!!!

I've used tee to copy files. I just have to manually enter the file numbers myself.

me@me:~/Desktop$ cp wavotmp3.sh | tee wavotm31.sh wavotmp32.sh wavotmp33.sh

and I get:

cp: missing destination file operand after `wavotmp3.sh'
Try `cp --help' for more information.

The files show up but, I get that error. Does anyone know why?
I'm looking for something similar to similar to tee or cp so I don't stray to far from novice commands for now.

And the problem there is that cp requires two parameters;
to "copy" using tee you just want to cat the file.

Code:

cat wavotmp3.sh | tee wavotm31.sh wavotmp32.sh wavotmp33.sh

What you would have gotten (in verbose mode) if you hadn't
omitted the target to copy is the output of the successful
copy command in three separate files.

Cheers,
Tink

CoffeeKing!!! · 08-26-2008, 02:44 PM

Thanks for the help guys. I'll throw this in when I get to the scripting part of the book I'm reading.

AmyOrchid · 09-06-2013, 06:41 AM

Hi all,

This thread is old. Hope any one can see my reply.
You can use following command:

Code:

cat copy_file |tee file_name{1..5}

It will out filename1 filename2, filename3, filename4, filename5.
Hope this is the results you want.