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Answer by Kusalananda for Copy the same file to the desktops of all users
Since cp only ever takes a single destination name, you would have to make it a loop and call copy the files individually: for destdir in /home/*/Desktop/; do cp myfile "$destdir" done Using xargs...
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Your code expands as: cp myfile /home/user1/Desktop/ /home/user2/Desktop/ /home/user3/Desktop/ /home/user4/Desktop/ ... /home/userN/Desktop/ From man of cp: Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s)...
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I’m looking for a way to copy a file to all Desktops directory of each user. Something like: cp myfile /home/*/Desktop/ I found a way to copy files to all home directories using xargs but it fails on...
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