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Old 09-25-2008
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Not directly. Use a loop, perhaps?


Code:
for f in 12 13 14 15 16; do
  cp xsec.1.11 xsec.1.$f
done

What's the use of the multiple copies? Perhaps you could put symbolic links in place once, and be done with it?