Script for renaming files

Shell Programming and Scripting
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I wanna back up the original version of files in a directory by appending .ORIG to them. I'm guessing I'd need CP and AWK in some form or fashion. Can someone give me a template? Thanks

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find /path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec echo cp -a  {} {}.ORIG \;

Did you ever consider snapshots or snapshot-like using rsync ?

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Nah didn't know about it, I'll give it a peep

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for F in *; do cp "$F" "${F}.ORIG"; done

To exlude already backuped files:

for F in *; do [ "${F##*.}" != "ORIG" ] && cp "$F" "${F}.ORIG"; done