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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