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02-02-2012

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Code:

#! /bin/bash

if [ $# -ne 4 ]  # If number of positional parameters are not equal to 4,
then             # Print warn msg and exit.
    echo "Need exactly 4 parameters. Exiting."
    exit
fi

for x in $2 $3 $4
do
    if [ -e $x ] # If target file exists, delete it.
    then         # Even otherwise, cp would overwrite it.
        rm -f $x # Some systems have an alias for cp as "cp -i".
    fi           # So cp would prompt the user if the target file needs can be over-written.
    cp $1 $x     # Same thing is achieved here by deleting and creating a fresh copy.
done

How to use:

Code:

$./test.sh src.txt tgt1.txt tgt2.txt tgt3.txt
$
$ ls -l *.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Feb  2 12:46 src.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Feb  2 12:46 tgt1.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Feb  2 12:46 tgt2.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 Feb  2 12:46 tgt3.txt

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