Re: Copy a file one hundred times
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:13:07PM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 03:50:31AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > 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
>
> err.. does this work?
THIS DOES NOT WORK! Agh...
This was my local test script :-) s/echo/cp/ is needed as you may have
guessed.
$ seq 1 100 | sed "s/^\(.*\)$/file\1.jpg/" |xargs -n1 cp file.jpg
This is one should do
cp file.jpg file1.jpg
cp file.jpg file2.jpg
...
cp file.jpg file100.jpg
Osamu
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