On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Bill Earl wrote:
> cp /mydir/myfiles/*.pdf /newdir/
>
Switching your current working directory to /mydir/myfiles
will prevent the /mydir/myfiles/ from being prefixed to
all the dot-pdf filenames.
$ cd /mydir/myfiles
$ cp *.pdf /newdir
If that doesn't help, then you can use character classes
and multiple 'cp' commands.
For example,
$ cp [a-m]*.pdf /newdir
$ cp [n-z]*.pdf /newdir
$ cp [0-9]*.pdf /newdir
$ cp *.pdf /newdir
G.D.Thurman [CS/CIS Instructor]
Scottsdale Community College
480.423.6110
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