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Subject: Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name?
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On Tue, 18 May 2004, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> How can I copy a group of files to a different name.  I want to copy al=
l=20
> files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'.  So I have these four f=
iles:
>=20
> blacklamb# ll bac*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   949 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-barcodes
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  5792 May 17 16:52 bacula-dir.conf
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel   763 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-fd.conf
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  1909 May 17 16:31 bacula-sd.conf
>=20
> I want to have copies of these files with '.old' appended to their=20
> names.  I've tried 'cp -pv bac* bac*.old' but cp complains.  Because=20
> it's only 4 files, I'll do each one independently but I'd like to know=20
> how to do this "right" for future reference.
>=20
> Thanks,
>=20
> Drew

Take a look at Krename.

Oliver
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