Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 16:49:37 -0500 (EST) From: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: copying files with same name Message-ID: <20040216163818.R609@genisis.domain.org>
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Okay, I must be missing something obvious here. How do you do a batch copy
while renaming the destination files? I want to copy all of the configure
scripts in /usr/ports to ~/scripts. I can get find to find the files, I
can get sed to rename them, but I can't get the timing down right.
cp -v `find /usr/ports -name configure -print | sed 's:/:=:g'` .
renames the files nicely (so they're not all named configure), but does it
too soon--the source no longer exists.
cp -v `find /usr/ports -name configure -print -exec sed 's:/:=:g' {} \;` .
gives a syntax error (missing }) and
cp -v `find /usr/ports -name configure -print | sed 's:/:=:g'` .
has sed complain of extra characters at the end of a p command, followed
by all my destination files being named configure.
Is there a way to do this as a one-liner, or does one have to write a
shell script with a while loop?
Dru
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