Re: [Help-bash] copy files w

[Val Krem]

Hi Chris and all,


I am trying to modify this script to do it recursively. I want to   go in  all 
sub folders and copy the files and here is my attempt

find . -type f -name *.txt | for file in *.txt

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

But it only do the job in the current directory.


Thank you







On Saturday, April 29, 2017 8:08 PM, Chris F.A. Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:



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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Chris F.A. Johnson, <http://cfajohnson.com
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