Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 19:52:42 +0200 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name? Message-ID: <40AA4D6A.5020700@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <40AA4621.3000605@mykitchentable.net> References: <40AA4621.3000605@mykitchentable.net>
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Drew Tomlinson 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.
You may want to take a look at the utility 'mmv' in the ports tree
('ports/misc/mmv' in CVS). For copying you would use the 'mcp' variant:
mcp -v 'bacula*' 'bacula=1.old'
It automatically preserves permissions and modification time. For a
test run in order to verify in advance what would happen, use the '-n'
option.
Great tool IMHO.
Uwe
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