Re: Copy a file one hundred times

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de>]

Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 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 :-)
<snip>
> $ seq 1 100 | sed "s/^\(.*\)$/file\1.jpg/" |xargs -n1 cp file.jpg
> 

And even shorter:

$ seq -w 1 1 10 | xargs -i -n1 cp file.jpg file{}.jpg

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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.