Unix Tip: MANIPULATE MULTIPLE FILES

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Unix Tip 3204 - November 14, 2009

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MANIPULATE MULTIPLE FILES

If you have a directory with large number of files and you want to rename or copy or process it, here is a simple way to do it;

# for temp in *
> do
> echo cp $temp $temp.org >> t.txt
> done

You can change the copy command to what ever that you need to do. This will create a file tmp.txt with all the files listed in the current working directory and insert a line into the file tmp.txt as;

cp filename filename.org

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