On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:23:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Sorry for this elementary question. I want to do sequential copies with > a command like this: $ cp --backup=t file .../destination/file. When > periodically run it produces file, file.~1~, file.~2~, etc. > > How do I get rid of the "~" so that the backups are file.1, file.2, > etc.?
If you are familiar with shell scripts, you can use a 'for' loop: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ for i in 1 2 3 ; do mv file.~${i}~ file.${i} done ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ You don't have to put each number into the 'for' loop yourself; with e.g. 17 files, you can write: for i in `seq 1 17`; do ... done -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150718111814.ga...@fok02.laje.edewe.de