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user2948166
user2948166

Reputation: 629

Copy a file to Multiple folders Linux

I am in a directory /xyz . In this /xyz directory there are multiple folders of students in alphabetically stored with their names. so I have a file value.txt which i want to copy to all folders of students who have their names beginning with A, B, C, D uptil R.

For example, in /xyz i have the following directories:

/amy

/brandon

/charles

/gina

/robert

/mike

/peter

/lily

I want to copy value.txt to all folders who have names beginning from A to R that is in

/amy

/brandon

/charles

/gina

/robert

Thanks Any help would be appreciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 990

Answers (4)

mrcl
mrcl

Reputation: 2180

Copy the following lines to a file e.g.: cpFile2Dirs.sh

#!/bin/bash
dList=`ls -d */`

for d in $dList;
do
    if [[ $d == [a-rA-R]* ]];
    then
        cp $1 $d
    fi

done

which should sit in the directory you are currently working on.

then execute

bash cpFile2Dirs.sh value.txt

this will copy the file value.txt to all directories starting with a/A up to r/R, as defined in the if statement. You can change that as you like.

You can also set execution permission to your script

chmod +x cpFile2Dirs.sh

then you don't need to run bash copyValues.sh value.txt, but simply

./cpFile2Dirs.sh value.txt

Hope it helps.

Upvotes: 0

z atef
z atef

Reputation: 7679

On the other side, if let say the number of letters you want to exclude will make the script less complicated , then you can do the following:

 [^YZ]*

This [^YZ] pattern will match any character except Y or Z - bash manual has more details . Read ths

Upvotes: 0

vonbrand
vonbrand

Reputation: 11791

You can do something like:

for s in [a-r]*; do cp file.text $s; done

Upvotes: 2

Amit
Amit

Reputation: 20456

for dirname in $(ls -d [a-r]*)
do
    cp value.txt ${dirname}/
done

Upvotes: 2

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