Re: Multiple files

[Thomas Good <tomg@sqlclinic.net>]

On 31 May 2002, Daniel D Jones wrote:

> How does one handle multiple files via most command line utilities?  For
> example, suppose you have a handful of perl scripts (*.pl) and you want
> to save them in the same directory with a different extension.  The
> command
> 
> cp *.pl *.bak

#!/bin/sh
ls *.pl > sources
for file in `cat sources`
do 
cp $file $file.bak
done
rm sources

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