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Eldan Shkolnikov
Eldan Shkolnikov

Reputation: 453

Need help copying files to all directories recursively

I have a bunch of folders with different names on which I am trying to copy one file to . I am not sure on how to do that with a wildcard charachter. Can anyone please help me out on this? So far I am stuck with this command 

cp -R custom.css

As you can see I am trying to copy custom.css to all directories. Thanks!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 65

Answers (4)

glenn jackman
glenn jackman

Reputation: 247220

for all subdirectories recursively:

find . -type d -execdir cp /full/path/to/custom.cs . \;

Upvotes: 0

Eldan Shkolnikov
Eldan Shkolnikov

Reputation: 453

Nevermind I got it. This is what I did

for d in ~/Desktop/menus/*/ ; do cp custom.css $d; done

Upvotes: -1

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786289

A simple for loop:

for d in path/to/dir1/ path/to/dir2/ path/to/dir3/; do
   cp custom.css "$d"
done

EDIT:: Run this from parent directory to copy a file to all the subdirectories:

for d in */; do
   cp custom.css "$d"
done

Upvotes: 2

David Elson
David Elson

Reputation: 221

First, get used to loops in (let's assume you are using) bash. Try creating 3 test directories, say d1, d2, and d3.

Try:

for d in d1 d2 d3; do echo $d; done

to make sure you have the list correct, then do:

for d in d1 d2 d3; do cp custom.css $d/; done

to copy your file.

Now check to make sure the file was copied.

O.k., now that it works, copy the file to your actual directories.

Upvotes: 0

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