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massy 02-06-2014 03:25 PM
How to copy some files that have same first part?
 
I used:
Code:
cp while* DEST
to copy some files that start with while,but the command treats it as a full name of a file

suicidaleggroll 02-06-2014 03:37 PM
Are you sure there are files that match "while*"? What if you run "ls while*"?

The shell will expand your "while*" before it calls cp, assuming that there's anything to expand to. If there's not, then cp gets the literal "while*" and will throw an error if it doesn't exist.

Code:
$ ls while*
ls: cannot access while*: No such file or directory
$ touch whilea whileb whileyay
$ ls while*
whilea  whileb  whileyay
cp works the same way


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