General :: Copy A File To All Subfolders In A Directory Using A Single Command?
Jul 18, 2010
I'd like to copy a file, say widgets/water.txt, to all subfolders in the folder widgets using a single command. So if the folder widgets has 10 subfolders like widgets/blue, widgets/green, etc. I'd like to copy water.txt to all of them with one command.
I tried the commands
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cp water.txt ./*/water.txt
cp water.txt ./*/
However these don't seem to work. The latter gives 'cp: omitting directory' errors.
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First I hope to undrestand my English word because Iam Arabic girl and not so good in English...
my problem is:
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That is what it shows in the man pages, but when I do that, it says cp: no match
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1st computer IP is 192.168.1.10 2nd computer IP is 192.168.1.20
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The file has been successfully copied to the second computer but I again want to copy that file into my local computer by still sitting in my 1st computer.
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When I restart the windows the folder appears (ofcourse because windows checks the file system again for consistency while in hibernation it does not).