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Monthly Archives: January 2009
cp a symlink to multiple directories
Today I wanted to copy a symlink to many different directories. So I tried the following:
for f in `find . -regex ''.*cp.*snippets''` ; do cp bbb.html $f/ ; done
Which returned:
cp: cannot stat `bbb.html': No such file or directory
bbb.html is a symlink and the default behavior of cp (I think) is to try and copy the [...]
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quick(er) way to symlink your `pwd`
I learned the other day about a neat shortcut for tilde expansion in bash.
$ ls ~-/
The neat thing about this expansion is that it does tab completion. What this lead me to discover is that you can also do ~N, where n is a number refering to your directory stack. (the bash man page says [...]
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