On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:25:42 +1100
Rob Weir <rweir@softhome.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:10:10PM +0100, Mat wrote:
> > I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their
> > extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as
> > I can read from cp' man or info page this is not possible)?
I don't understand do you need to copy all .bak files ??
then it's easy just do
$ cp *.bak foo/
or do you need to make copies of some files adding .bak to their
filenames then you'll have ot use a for statement
$ fo i in *; do cp $i $i.bak; done
cheers,
Alaa
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