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Subject: RE: [Fwd: cp multiple files by extension]
From: Ward William E PHDN <wardwe@nswcphdn.navy.mil>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:40:04 -0500
David Powers <wizlord@freewwweb.com> wrote:
> cp *.htm *.html
> cp: copying multiple files, but last argument (*.html) is not a
> directory
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> If cp cannot do this with mutiple files how can I quickly
> work around this?
ls -1 *.htm | awk '{printf("%s %sl\n",$1,$1)}' | xargs cp
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