Create Multiple files with content

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

I have a file details.csv and I need to create 5 files in same folder named as details1.csv,details2.csv,details3.csv,details4.csv,details5.csv along with contents of details.csv

Thanks in Advance.

2

You mean you want to create copy of details.csv 5 times? Or those 5 files already exsits and you want to append the data of details.csv to them?

3

I need to create a copy of details.csv with different names (details1.csv,details2.csv,details3.csv,details4.csv,details5.csv) along with the data. The data must be same in all the files but only the filenames must be different.

4

have you tried using

CP

command?

5

Right. As previous poster suggested:

cp details.csv details1.csv
cp details.csv details2.csv
cp details.csv details3.csv
cp details.csv details4.csv
cp details.csv details5.csv
6

Yeah Its working I thought of getting it in single command rather than executing it 5 times.

for i in {1..5}
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

this is not creating 5 different files rather it creates one file as details{1..5}.csv
I donno where I went wrong..?

7

try this one !
code:
i=0
while [ $i -le 4 ]
do
i=`expr $i + 1`
cp details.csv details$i.csv
done

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8 
for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done

regards

9

What you wrote would probably work with the bash shell. In AIX, though, the Korn shell (ksh) is used. -=Xray=- showed you already how a for-loop in ksh is constructed.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

10

Maybe that would have worked if you had started ksh93 . ksh93 supports some extra syntax that default ksh does not support.

for something like this though I would have done almost the same as you example:

$ for i in 1 2 3 4 5
do
cp details.csv details{$i}.csv
done