Re: [Help-bash] copy files w

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017, Val Krem wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have several files with the same  extension name(*.txt). I want to have   
> copy of these files by attaching a suffix to each of the files. Example 
> test1.txt should be copied to test1_new.txt. The suffix to be added in all 
> files is the same. I tried using this but did not work.
>
> ls *.txt | xargs -I {} cp {} {}_new.txt
>
> test.txt should be test_new.txt
> but I got test.txt_new.txt
>
> what should I do to make work?

for file in *.txt
do
  cp "$file" "${file/.txt/_new.txt}"
done

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