如何将单个目录中的所有文件移动到多个目录？

Question

I have a directory that contains files I need from a calculation (6.00-film2) and I have 10 other directories, each with 10 sub-directories that I would like these files copied into. Is there an easier way of doing this rather than doing

cp -r 6.00-film2/ 5.5-film/5.5-1

100 times.

The directory 5.5-film contains 5.5-1, 5.5-2, 5.5-3, 5.5-4, 5.5-5, ..., 5.5-10. I need the files from 6.00-film2 to be copied into each of the 10 directories above, how would I go about doing that?

Answer 1

cp can copy from multiple sources, but can't copy to multiple destinations. See man cp for more info.

The only bash command that I know which can copy/save to multiple destinations is tee .

You can use it as follows:

tee ~/folder1/test.txt ~/folder2/test.txt < ~/test.txt

Note that tee also writes the input to the standard output (stdout). So if you don't want this, you can prevent it by redirecting standard output to /dev/null as follow:

tee ~/folder1/test.txt ~/folder2/test.txt < ~/test.txt >/dev/null