Copy one file to multiple vhost directories
 

I'm administering a server that uses Plesk, and I need to copy the vhost.conf file to the conf folder for every vhost that begins with a certain word - we'll call it "unique".

To accomplish this, I tried running the following:
# cp vhost.conf /var/www/vhosts/unique*/conf/

It does copy to one folder, but kicks out the following error for the rest:
cp: omitting directory `/var/www/vhosts/unique1.com/conf/'
cp: omitting directory `/var/www/vhosts/unique2.com/conf/'
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I saw someone mention in another thread that it is not possible in Linux to copy one file to multiple directories without a shell script. If this is the case, could someone steer me to a script that would be helpful here? I'd be most grateful.

Thanks,
TWR

Something like (untested!) may do it

Cheers,
Tink

Nice, Tink. Thanks for the quick reply. I'll give it a whirl.

Hope it works ;} ... shouldn't be too hard.


Cheers,
Tink

I ran the script (after changing the ' to a `) and it loops though all the folders inside each of unique0, unique1, etc instead of through the folder names themselves. To remedy this, I changed the command to:

for i in `ls /var/www/vhosts/`;
do
echo $i/conf/
# cp vhost.conf $i/conf/
done

which echos out every folder in the /vhosts folder. Now all I need to do is all a conditional to only echo when the folder name contains the word "unique". Does it require a regular expression? Or are there simpler functions available like strpos in php? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
TWR

The "looping through" is easily remedied ...

Sorry about that - must have been a tad tired :}


Cheers,
Tink