That’s all, you can send us questions in relation to the topic or any feedback through the comment form below. Try to read through the man pages of cp, echo and xargs commands to find useful and advanced usage information: $ man cp
In the form above, the paths to the directories (dir1,dir2,dir3….dirN) are echoed and piped as input to the xargs command where: To do away with this problem, you can employ the echo command, a pipe, xargs command together with the cp command in the form below: # echo /home/aaronkilik/test/ /home/aaronkilik/tmp | xargs -n 1 cp -v /home/aaronkilik/bin/sys_info.sh # cp -v /home/aaronkilik/bin/sys_info.sh /home/aaronkilik/tmpĪssuming that you want to copy a particular file into up to five or more directories, this means you would have to type five or more cp commands? Consider the commands below, normally, you would type two different commands to copy the same file into two separate directories as follows: # cp -v /home/aaronkilik/bin/sys_info.sh /home/aaronkilik/test