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Shell : Сopy one directory to multiple directories

There is a directory YYY and a structure on the site: site1.ru/wp-content/plugins/ site2.ru/wp-content/plugins/ ... site10.ru/wp-content/plugins/ Task: YYY directory to copy all directories plugins ...
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Copy multiple files to one dir with parallel

I'm using the following script to copy multiple files into one folder: { echo $BASE1; echo $BASE2; echo $BASE3; } | parallel cp -a {} $DEST Is there any way to use only one echo $BASE with brace ...
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Copying a single file to multiple directories using cp

This question is a sequel of sorts to my earlier question, Creating numerous directories using mkdir. I am using the bash shell. I have created fifty directories, each starting with the prefix "s", ...
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cp or rsync, is cp really worth it?

I hope this does not count as a question without a real answer, as I can't seem to find a good reason to use cp(1) over rsync(1) in virtually all circumstances. Should one typically favour rsync over ...
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Make directory copies using find

I have a directory with a bunch of subdirectories in it. Thus /usr/local/src/ccl/ccl-1.8/x86-headers$ ls elf gl gmp gnome2 gtk2 jni libc Each of these directories has a further subdirectory C ...
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Batch copy to multiple directories

I have about 9000 files in a directory and I want to mv them into 90 files in 100 directories by filename order, ignoring any remainder. In Copy multiple files from filename X to filename Y?, Caleb ...
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How to copy a file and move it to a location using unix

I need a file to stay in the same location but also move it to a different location. What am I doing wrong? cp RubyTest.sublime-settings \ ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime\ Text\ ...
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cp launched from code results in cannot stat '/tmp/somedir' works in shell

I'm working on making some scripts more elegant by implementing them in a real x application etc... At some point in the scripts we basically want to take everything from a mounted removable storage ...
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How do I move some but not all files from one directory to another?

I need to move my files from one directory to other. But there is some issues. My file name pattern is like: apple.0, apple.<n>, n -> {0,1,2,3 ...~ } so mv apple.* will not work, because ...
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How to update a content management installation by overwriting existing files via ssh and shell?

I have installed a cms (modx) on a webserver running CentOS 5 and Apache 2.2. Now there is a new version and I would like to update it. The instructions in the modx-wiki suggest to overwrite the ...