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Old 11-10-2007
Copy single file to multiple directories

Please help - I need to copy a single file to multiple directories.

Dir structure:

Parent_Directoy
Filename1
Child_Directory1
Child_Directory2
Child_Directory3
Child_Directory4
....

So I need to copy Filename1 to all of the Child_Directories.

Currently I do it one by one via
cp Filename1 Child_Directory1/
cp Filename1 Child_Directory2/
....
# 2  
Old 11-10-2007
Create a file (dirfile) containing a list of the directories you want to copy to, one per line
and then use a simple shell script to batch copy the file i.e.

#! /bin/sh
while read DIR
do
cp file $DIR
done < dirlist
# 3  
Old 11-11-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by kthatch
Parent_Directoy
Filename1
Child_Directory1
Child_Directory2
Child_Directory3
Child_Directory4
....

So I need to copy Filename1 to all of the Child_Directories.
If you want to copy to all subdirectories (ie Child_Directory1,2,3,4 etc are the only subdirs), you can do the following:
Code:
find <parent directory> -type d -exec cp <parent directory>/<Filename1> {}/ \;

If you have other junk in the parent dir but a pattern that matches all subdirs (eg Child_Directory*), you can do this (bourne/ksh/bash):
Code:
for subdir in <parent directory>/<pattern> ; do cp <parent directory>/<Filename1> ${subdir}/ ; done

 
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