Friday, June 11, 2010

How to copy a file into multiple directories in Ubuntu

Assume that you want to copy a file into multiple directories in the current directory, then all you have to do is, just entering following command in the terminal. Here, file.txt will be copied into all directories in the current directory. In case of a directory coping, replace file.txt with -rf [your dir].
for dir in *; do [ -d "$dir" ] && cp file.txt "$dir" ; done
for dir in *; do [ -d "$dir" ] && cp -rf /home/wageesha/images "$dir" ; done

4 comments:

  1. Thank you this helped me alot! Cheers

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  2. is this also overwrite the existing files in directories

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