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Old 10-10-2018
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Originally Posted by MuntyScrunt
The file would never be in the same directory, that wouldn't make any sense.

Example:

I want to copy the file /mnt/g/blender/projects/raider_ship_3000_frame_test_run.blend

And I want to copy the file to my current directory /mnt/backup

I just don't want type the file file name.

1) it's boring.
2) Introducing typos is easy.

And I'm working with a lot of files.
the cp command 'assumes' the current directory to be the destination directory if not specified, I'm just asking if the file name can be assumed to be the same if not specified.
If all your files are in /mnt/g/blender/projects you could try one of
Code:
$ cp /mnt/g/blender/projects/* .
$ cp /mnt/g/blender/projects/{file1,file2,file3} .
$ cd /mnt/g/blender/projects; cp file1 .... filen /mnt/backup

If they are in multiple different directories it's a little more difficult.

If all your files are in different directories, all under, say /mnt/g/blender, and I assume you are using bash as your shell, you could try this:
Code:
$ cd /mnt/g/blender
$ shopt -s globstar
$ cp **/file1 **/file2 .... **/filen /mnt/backup

globstar is a bash shell option that expands **/ into all subdirectories.

Otherwise I don't think you can do what you want.

Andrew
 
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