How to copy a file to multiple directories in Linux | Linux Today

How to copy a file to multiple directories in Linux

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Jan 3, 2020

In this short article, you will learn how to copy one file into many directories. The obvious answer would be to use the cp command but this not exactly correct since the cp command is rather used to copy several files into one directory. You will see what additional commands and combinations are needed to pull this off. Let’s get started

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