How to copy all files into the same directory


 
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Old 01-25-2011
How to copy all files into the same directory

Dear All,
Again I have another simple question. Smilie

I want to write a csh which can copy all files of a current directory with a new name in the same directory, I mean:
If I have tree bird apple as files in a directory I want to give ,say number 007 as argument to my csh and it copies all my files so that I will have tree bird apple, and, tree007 bird007 apple007.

I tried cp command but it did not work for several files. how can I do that?

Thanks in advance
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Old 01-26-2011
Code:
 
ls | xargs -I{} cp {} {}007

# 3  
Old 01-26-2011
Thank you butSmilie


xargs: Could not exec command: No such file or directory
also it does not recognize {}
# 4  
Old 01-26-2011
Use single quotes.
Code:
ls | xargs -I'{}'  cp '{}' '{}'007

 
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