On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 07:12:32PM +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I need the right syntax to copy file.jpg 100 times with one command so to get > 100 files named file1.jpg, file2.jpg, ..., file100.jpg. > > Can anybody suggest how to achieve that? ere is one without looping :-) $ seq 1 100 | sed "s/^\(.*\)$/file\1.jpg/" |xargs -n1 echo file.jpg