Better way to copy multiple directories to new directory

command linecpdirectory

Is there a better way on the command line to essentially accomplish the following but with a single command

cp -r css/ ar/
cp -r images/ ar/
cp -r js/ ar/
cp -r backups/ ar/

I've just been stringing them together with a semicolon.

Best Answer

Copying folders into another folder (folder in folder):

cp -r css images js backups ar/

Note: this is different from copying just the contents themselves(contents of folders in folder):

cp -r css/ images/ js/ backups/ ar/

Related Solutions

Copying multiple files to multiple directories

echo dir[1-3] | xargs -r -n1 cp file[1-5]

Shell – Batch copy to multiple directories

In bash, try the following code :

#!/bin/bash

c=0

for f; do
    if ! ((c % 100)); then
        folder=folder_$(printf "%03d\n" $c)
        mkdir -p $folder
    fi

    [[ -d "$f" ]] || mv "$f" "$folder"
    ((c++))
done

Run the script like that :

./script.bash *

Best Answer

Related Solutions

Copying multiple files to multiple directories

Shell – Batch copy to multiple directories

Related Question