Ubuntu – Copy and paste a bunch of files with different name

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I have a bunch of text files with the name

foo_bar_abc_1_01_geh_original.in
foo_bar_abc_1_02_geh_original.in
foo_bar_abc_1_03_geh_original.in
...
...
foo_bar_abc_1_1000_geh_original.in

I would like to copy (and keep the original files) each file and paste to different names (in the same folder) like,

foo_bar_abc_1_01_geh_copy.in
foo_bar_abc_1_02_geh_copy.in
foo_bar_abc_1_03_geh_copy.in
...
...
foo_bar_abc_1_1000_geh_copy.in

How can I do this using a simple script?

Best Answer

Change directory to where you have the original files.

Then test with the following command line,

for i in *_original.*;do echo cp -p "$i" "${i/_original./_copy.}";done

and if it looks good, remove echo and do the copying,

for i in *_original.*;do cp -p "$i" "${i/_original./_copy.}";done

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I assume you mean you have a structure something like:

├── f1
│   ├── a1
│   ├── a2
│   ├── b1
│   ├── b2
│   ├── c1
│   ├── c2
├── f2
│   ├── a3
│   ├── a4
│   ├── b3
│   ├── b4
│   ├── c3
│   ├── c4

and you want to end up with a directory like this:

a-files
├── a1
├── a2
├── a3
└── a4

Assuming:

the current working directory is the parent directory of all the directories f1 f2 f3

You could do:

mkdir a-files
for files in f*/a* ; do cp "$files" a-files ; done

to copy all files starting with a to a new directory a-files from all directories starting with f. You can repeat for files starting with b...

mkdir b-files
for files in f*/b* ; do cp "$files" b-files ; done

Note: if there are any duplicate filenames, each file written to the new directory will overwrite another with the same name, so at the end of the loop, the new directory would only have a copy of the last file to be written with that name. You could use the -n flag to cp to prevent overwriting, and then you would get the first file with that name instead of the last one:

for files in f*/a* ; do cp -n "$files" a-files ; done

Ubuntu – Copy specific text from a multiple line file and paste it in another file automatically using terminal

In sed, assuming your list is in a file called file, you could use:

sed -n '/ss: /N;s/\n//;s/IP address:/This computer ip address is/;s/Computer name:/ and is under the name/p' file

-n don't print anything until we ask for it
/ss: / find the pattern ss: (to match the lines with IP address:)
N read the next line too so we can join them
; separates commands, like in the shell
s/old/new/ replace old with new
s/\n// delete the newline between the two lines
p print the lines we've worked on

When you see what you want, repeat the command adding > newfile at the end of it to write the modified file to newfile

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