On Tue, 18 May 2004, 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. > > Thanks, > > Drew
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