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Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:54:15 +0200
From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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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:
> 
> > OK, thanks.  I'm using tcsh but I think I figure out how to do it
> > following your example.  So a "script" is the only way to do it in
> > *nix?  Being born and raised on MS-DOS, I'm accustomed to the "copy bac*
> > bac*.old" syntax.

On the command line (tcsh):

> ls bac*
bac1  bac2  bac3
> foreach file ( bac* )
foreach? cp -p $file $file.old
foreach? end
> ls bac*
bac1  bac1.old  bac2  bac2.old  bac3  bac3.old

cheers,
Ruben