On 5/4/2019 5:08 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hi! All, > > Want to create a simple, one liner to type in to automate what I've > been doing manually: Perform an operation on files in unique, > sequential directories, save the results of the operations for each > directory with a file name of that directory in the directory the > target directories reside in. For example: > > Directories ab01, ab02 ... ab30 results in output > > ab01.jpg. ab02.jpg ... ab30.jpg outside of those drectories. > > There will never be more than 99 directories -- usually a lot less. The > actual number will vary job to job. The letters in the directory names > will vary job to job, but will remain constant for each job. Only the > numbers will sequence. >
Would something like the following do it: $ mkdir -p abc; cp -v abc*.gpg abc/ | tee -a abc/abc.log -- John Doe