[X-Unix] Copying to multiple directories

[Eugene Lee]

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.

This solution works for Bourne shell derivatives:

	for d in /Users/*/Library; do cp "fileA" "${d}"; done

Replace "cp" with "ditto -rsrc" if you need to copy over resource forks.


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Eugene Lee
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