Re: Copy a file one hundred times

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/21/08 15:58, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> 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

What's with the {}?  An implied variable?

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