Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:35:51 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name? Message-ID: <40AA4977.9020304@mykitchentable.net> In-Reply-To: <200405181725.i4IHPXtT016748@beast.csl.sri.com> References: <200405181725.i4IHPXtT016748@beast.csl.sri.com>
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On 5/18/2004 10:25 AM Mike Hogsett wrote:
>>How can I copy a group of files to a different name. I want to copy all
>>files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'. So I have these four files:
>>
>>blacklamb# ll bac*
>>-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 949 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-barcodes
>>-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 5792 May 17 16:52 bacula-dir.conf
>>-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 763 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-fd.conf
>>-rw-r----- 1 root wheel 1909 May 17 16:31 bacula-sd.conf
>>
>>I want to have copies of these files with '.old' appended to their
>>names. I've tried 'cp -pv bac* bac*.old' but cp complains. Because
>>it's only 4 files, I'll do each one independently but I'd like to know
>>how to do this "right" for future reference.
>>
>
>
>Well it may not be right, but there is more than one way to skin a cat.
>
>
>if using bash as your shell you could do
>
>> <>for b in *
>> do
>> mv $b ${b}.old
>> done
>>
OK, thanks. I'm using tcsh but I think I figure out how to do it
following your example. So a "script" is the only way to do it in
*nix? Being born and raised on MS-DOS, I'm accustomed to the "copy bac*
bac*.old" syntax.
Thanks,
Drew
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