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Felix Ogg
Felix Ogg

Reputation: 852

Duplicate files with similar file names in UNIX

I have a set of files in a single directory named:

OneThing-x.extension
OneThing-y.extension
OneThing-z.extension

What UNIX command (find, cp, xargs, sed ?) do I use to COPY these into

AnotherThing-x.extension
AnotherThing-y.extension
AnotherThing-z.extension

such that x ->copy-> x, and y ->copy -> y

I have the find .. part of the command to start with,which selects the files, but I am stuck there.

EDIT Obviously, I want to keep both the original and the copy, so a rename does not quite do the trick for me.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1445

Answers (5)

Mark van Lent
Mark van Lent

Reputation: 13001

You could also use mmv:

$ mmv -c "OneThing*" "AnotherThing#1"

or

$ mmv -c "OneThing-*.extension" "AnotherThing-#1.extension"

Upvotes: 0

Stephen Darlington
Stephen Darlington

Reputation: 52565

How about:

$ touch a1.a a2.a a3.a
$ ls

a1.a  a2.a  a3.a

$ for a in a*.a ; do cp $a $(echo $a | sed 's/^a/b/') ; done
$ ls

a1.a  a2.a  a3.a  b1.a  b2.a  b3.a

Upvotes: 3

Jason Musgrove
Jason Musgrove

Reputation: 3583

My rough solution would be something like:

for FIL in OneThing*; do NFIL=`echo $FIL|sed 's/OneThing/AnotherThing/'`; cp "$FIL" "$NFIL"; done;

Upvotes: 1

jcadam
jcadam

Reputation: 993

$ rename 's/OneThing/AnotherThing/' *.extension

Upvotes: 0

Douglas Leeder
Douglas Leeder

Reputation: 53320

Extending Jason Musgrove's solution:

for FIL in OneThing*
do
  NFIL=`echo $FIL | sed 's/OneThing/AnotherThing/'`
  cp "$FIL" "$NFIL"
done

Upvotes: 1

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