How To Copy A Group of Files To Different Name?

Oliver Fuchs oliverfuchs at onlinehome.de
Tue May 18 20:30:27 PDT 2004


On Tue, 18 May 2004, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> How can I copy a group of files to a different name.  I want to copy all 
> files starting with 'bacula*' to 'bacula*.old'.  So I have these four files:
> 
> blacklamb# ll bac*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   949 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-barcodes
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  5792 May 17 16:52 bacula-dir.conf
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel   763 Apr 22 09:13 bacula-fd.conf
> -rw-r-----  1 root  wheel  1909 May 17 16:31 bacula-sd.conf
> 
> I want to have copies of these files with '.old' appended to their 
> names.  I've tried 'cp -pv bac* bac*.old' but cp complains.  Because 
> it's only 4 files, I'll do each one independently but I'd like to know 
> how to do this "right" for future reference.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew

Take a look at Krename.

Oliver
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