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Help copying .profile

Comment:

I need help with the command to copy a file from one directory to all of the sub-directories of another directory. I need to copy the .profile from /home/person/ to all of the people in /home I tried cp -r /home/person/.profile /home/*/ but that did not work.

Name: David Perry
Date: June 2, 2003 at 11:31:06 Pacific

Reply:

You need a looping structure cd /home/ for dir in `ls /home/` ; do echo cp .profile $dir ; done

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