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[Scotty_B]

I have a directory and need to copy it(and its subdirs) to 90 other directorys.

For example assume I have

/home/maindir/public_html

I need to replicate this to 90 other directories, I'm thinking the best way would be to create a text file with all the directories it needs to goto eg

/home/1/public_html
/home/2/public_html
/home/3/public_html
etc.

But really I dont know what to do so any pointers?

Hope I have provided enough info.

Cheers

[Slidey]

for x in `cat txtfile`; do cp -R /home/maindir/public_html $x; done

then put them all in a txt file one line at a time (or each with a space between)

or you could do cp -R /home/maindir/public_html /home/1/public_html /home/2/public_html /home/3/public_html etc

or you could be cleverer and do something with seq (i forget the exact syntax, ive given you 2 options already anyway!)

[Scotty_B]

Thanks, just what I was looking for