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Hello-

I need to copy a file into multiple directories, and each directory's sub-directories (of which there are 5)

Currently, the parent directory is set up like this:

dir1
sub-dir1
sub-dir2
sub-dir3
sub-dir4
sub-dir5
dir2
sub-dir1
sub-dir2
sub-dir3
sub-dir4
sub-dir5
dir3
sub-dir1
sub-dir2
sub-dir3
sub-dir4
sub-dir5
dir4
sub-dir1
sub-dir2
sub-dir3
sub-dir4
sub-dir5
etc (for 17 directories in all)

file.js

Similar posts seem to involve copying multiple directories and copying a file into several sub directories.

Unfortunately, I can't quite figure out how to get the file to not only cycle through all directories in the parent directory, but also all of the sub-directories within.

Let's assume dir1, dir2, etc live off the same parent directory - call it parent.

Code:

find parent/dir1 parent/dir2 parent/dir3 [and so on to ] parent/dir17 -type d |
while read directory 
do
    cp /home/me/file.js $directory
done

-----Post Update-----

If dir1 .. dir17 are all of the directories:

Code:

cd parent
find . -type d |
while read directory 
do
    cp /home/me/file.js $directory
done

-----Post Update-----

If dir1 .. dir17 are all of the directories:

Code:

cd parent
find . -type d |
while read directory 
do
    cp /home/me/file.js $directory
done