Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 10:25:33 -0700 From: Mike Hogsett <hogsett@csl.sri.com> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name? Message-ID: <200405181725.i4IHPXtT016748@beast.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> of "Tue, 18 May 2004 10:21:37 PDT." <40AA4621.3000605@mykitchentable.net>
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> How can I copy a group of files to a different name. I want to copy all
> files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'. So I have these four files:
>
> 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
>
> I want to have copies of these files with '.old' appended to their
> names. I've tried 'cp -pv bac* bac*.old' but cp complains. Because
> it's only 4 files, I'll do each one independently but I'd like to know
> how to do this "right" for future reference.
Well it may not be right, but there is more than one way to skin a cat.
if using bash as your shell you could do
> for b in *
> do
> mv $b ${b}.old
> done
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