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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Noob's 1st...bash-script for copying one file into many Post 302432680 by WSUToad on Friday 25th of June 2010 07:19:18 PM
Old 06-25-2010
Ah...sorry I think I was a bit unclear.
My goal is to take a file with name "file.a.b.c-d.r" and produce 4 exact copies of it with 4 different names:
"file.a.b.1-A.r"
"file.a.b.1-B.r"
"file.a.b.1-C.r"
"file.a.b.1-D.r"

all the while, being able to "feed" the four new variables A, B, C, D I name within the bash script.

Thanks again for helping me out.
 

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