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George
George

Reputation: 189

Bash Copying the Contents of One Directory to every Directory contained within a Parent Directory

I'd imagine this would be a simply command, but I can't find a way to copy the contents of a directory to every subdirectory contained in a parent directory. For example, let's say I wanted to copy the path:

user/origin

to all of the following directories inside the destination "target" directory. For example...

user/target/1, user/target/6, user/target/2, user/target/a/10, etc.

Is there any way to achieve this functionality?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (1)

user3897784
user3897784

Reputation:

Be careful because you can get an infinite loop, normally exec should suffice but when you are using recursion this way it causes an infinite loop so use xargs: 

find user/target/ -type d | xargs -I {} cp -r user/origin {}

Upvotes: 1

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