Peter Hardy was once rumoured to have said:
> Did I get in first? :-)
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:35PM +1100, Bernhard L?der wrote:
> > I have to copy a file to all user directories.
> >
> > cp file.file /home/*
> >
> > will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
> > this without listing the individual directories
>
> for user in `ls /home`
> do cp file.file /home/$user
> done
Actually, if you want to be polite, you might want to consider:
for user in `ls /home`; do
cp file.file /home/$user
chown $user /home/$user/file.file
done
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