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usersubuser
usersubuser

Reputation: 117

copy content of folder to multiple folders bash

I want to copy the content of source folder to destination folders in one line, is that possible ?

I have this

cp -r source/* dest1 dest2 dest3

but it doesn't work, what it does it copies the 3 folders (source dest1 dest2) in dest3 and I want the content from source folder to each dest folder.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 38

Answers (2)

Joao Morais
Joao Morais

Reputation: 1935

Use a for:

for dest in dest1 dest2 dest3; do cp -r source/* "$dest"; done

Upvotes: 0

choroba
choroba

Reputation: 242443

Do you mean you want to make three copies?

for dest in dest1 dest2 dest3 ; do
    cp -r source/* "$dest"
done

Or, use xargs to avoid the loop:

echo dest1 dest2 dest3 | xargs -n1 cp -r source/*

Upvotes: 1

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