[ILUG] A new copying files problem

[John P. Looney]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:38:31PM +0100, Paul McCourt mentioned:
> 
> Seeing as you guys are on this topic, what about the following problem.
> 
> I want to copy a specfic file which is located in every directory in a dir
> structure.  See below, the file has notes in the filename and theres a
> different one located in each directory, I want something to go into each
> dir, and copy the file to another target directory along with the others
> 
> Paul
>   |
>   - home
>   |
>   - office
>   |
>   - work
> 
> 
> Confused? I'm sorry I couldn't make it any more murky.

 Something like;

    for i in Paul/* ; do
          cp $i/filename ${somewhere}/${i}/filename
    done

 ?

Kate

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