Multi-copying a file - Shell Programming and Scripting

Smiling Dragon · #3 (**permalink**) 09-25-2008

This will make five copies of xsec.1.11, five copies of xsec.2.11 and five copies of xsec.3.11. Hopefully this will be enough to get you started?

Code:

for file in xsec.1 xsec.2 xsec.3
do
  for num in 12 13 14 15 16
  do
    cp ${file}.11 ${file}.${num}
  done
done

Sing out if it's still confusing or not what you meant

edit: oops, that'll teach me to open multipl threads at once then get distracted