[X-Unix] Copying to multiple directories

[Brian Medley]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:32:36PM -0600, Harvey Riekoff wrote:

> I need to copy "fileA" to every users library folder in the Users 
> directory. The file resides at t he root level. The command that I have 
> been using is: cp -r fileA /Users/*/Library.  There is obviously 
> something that I am doing wrong because nothing is copying. Any help 
> would be appreciated.

$ ls -d /Users/*/Library | xargs -I % echo cp fileA %
cp fileA /Users/bpm/Library
cp fileA /Users/jasonp/Library
cp fileA /Users/jmh/Library

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