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Mike_Brown 07-06-2015 06:10 PM
How to copy (save as) one file into multiple files (names are different)
 
I have a file temp.sh. I would like to save temp.sh as temp1.sh, Temp.sh, TEMP.sh, and a.sh. I am trying to use
Code:
cp temp.sh temp1.sh Temp.sh TEMP.sh a.sh
. But it does not work.

astrogeek 07-06-2015 06:31 PM
No, it doesn't. It doesn't work like that.

If you look at the error message it should be something like...

Code:
cp: target 'a.sh' is not a directory
cp will accept multiple sources but only one target. If there are multiple sources it will expect the target to be a directory.

Keith Hedger 07-06-2015 06:46 PM
You could try this:
Code:
echo -en "t1.sh\0t2.sh\0tn.sh\0"|xargs -0 -I '{}' cp /tmp/x.sh /tmp/'{}'
The args to echo are -e - use escape codes, -n - suppress newline.
Args to xargs are -0 use '0' as delimiter, -I '{}' replace '{}' with data read from stdin.
The \0 in the echo string inserts a 0, the byte NOT the character into the string.

Aia 07-06-2015 07:24 PM
Would a simple loop do?

Code:
for f in temp1 Temp TEMP a; do
    echo "cp temp.sh ${f}.sh"
done
Remove the echo and quotes if satisfied.

Keith Hedger 07-06-2015 07:26 PM
That's the beauty of linux if you dont like one solution just hang around another one will be along in a moment.


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