Copying the files in to multiple location using shell script

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi All,

i'm trying to copy the 1.txt files (sample files) in to different path location using the below command.
But it is not copying the files , when i tried for single location able to copy the file.
can any one please assist here.

Please find the below path :-

/ckr_mkr1/licencekey

file name: 1.txgt

source location : /ckr_mkr1/licencekey/1.txt
Destination location : /ckr_mkr5*/licencekey/1.txt (eg : ckr_mkr3 , ckr_mkr4 , ckr_mkr5 ..... ckr_mkr40 )

i tried the below command ..but it is not copying in destination location .
using the find commmand

 find . -type f -name "1.txt" -exec cp "{}" -nR /ckr_mkrlive*/licencekey/

using the copy command

cp -nr /ckr_mkr*/licencekey/
2

Copying several files to one target directory can be done with cp . Not what you want to do - cp to several targets in one go. You'd need a loop, or e.g.

echo ckr_mkr3 ckr_mkr4 ckr_mkr5 ckr_mkr40 | xargs -n1 echo cp /p/t/f/1.txt
cp /p/t/f/1.txt ckr_mkr3
cp /p/t/f/1.txt ckr_mkr4
cp /p/t/f/1.txt ckr_mkr5
cp /p/t/f/1.txt ckr_mkr40

where /p/t/f is the "path to file". Supply full target paths if necessary. You could use any other means to provide the targets on stdin, like a file, or an ls command, ...

3

The find command provides a list of files/directories according to some criteria. To use it you must do it the other way round, i.e. let it provide a list of directories to copy a fixed file to, like this:

find /start/dir -type d -name "<name-pattern>" -exec cp /a/fixed/file.txt {} \;

If you have a list of files you want to copy you can do that by enclosing the command in a loop:

for filetocopy in /some/where/* ; do
     find /start/dir -type d -name "<name-pattern>" -exec cp "$filetocopy" {} \;
done

I hope this helps.

bakunin