Subj : Re: bash script
To   : comp.programming
From : Thomas Jollans
Date : Sun Sep 18 2005 08:15 pm

Christian Christmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I need a bash script which copy all files of a directory
> and adds a specific prefix with all newly created
> files.
> E.g. in the directory I have: 
> 
> char01, char02 and chartest04
> 
> and want the script to create automatically
> 
> uchar01, uchar02 and uchartest04
> 
> with 'u' as prefix.
> 
> Since I'm not familiar with writing scripts I would appreciate
> your help.
> 
> Thank you.
> Chis
> 
for f in * ; do cp $f new_dir/u$f ; done

it's just a loop.

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