Hi.

I am having some problems with the cp-routine. It doesn't copy one file to multiple destinations. 

I want to do something like this; cp myfile.txt ~/directory1/thisfile.txt ~/directory2/thatfile.txt ; copy myfile.txt to ~/directory<1,2>. 
BUT....there is always a but.....I want to read from my disk only ONCE, and not twice. If I wanted to read the disk twice, I would make a bash-script. 

How can this be solved? I'm reading the source of cp.c and copy.c in coreutils. 
Rewritting cp.c, and copy.c is a bad and slow solution how to solve this problem. 
How could this be solved in a easy, and clever way?

Best Regards, 

Ole J. 

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Ole Jacob Hagen wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I am having some problems with the cp-routine. It doesn't copy one file to multiple destinations.
> 
> I want to do something like this; cp myfile.txt ~/directory1/thisfile.txt ~/directory2/thatfile.txt ; copy myfile.txt to ~/directory<1,2>.
> BUT....there is always a but.....I want to read from my disk only ONCE, and not twice. If I wanted to read the disk twice, I would make a bash-script.
> 
> How can this be solved? I'm reading the source of cp.c and copy.c in coreutils.
> Rewritting cp.c, and copy.c is a bad and slow solution how to solve this problem.
> How could this be solved in a easy, and clever way?
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Ole J.

Lorinczy Zsigmond / Domonyik Mariann wrote:
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