On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 17:25:42 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:10:10PM +0100, Mat wrote: > > I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their > > extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as > > I can read from cp' man or info page this is not possible)? I don't understand do you need to copy all .bak files ?? then it's easy just do $ cp *.bak foo/ or do you need to make copies of some files adding .bak to their filenames then you'll have ot use a for statement $ fo i in *; do cp $i $i.bak; done cheers, Alaa -- get my PGP/GPG signature at http://www.geocities.com/alaaov/pub_key.txt Perilous to all of us are the devices of an art deeper than we ourselves possess. -- Gandalf the Grey [J.R.R. Tolkien, "Lord of the Rings"]
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