Greetings!, The 'cp' and 'ln' command provides the ability to perform 'bulk' operation, by specifying multiple source files and a target destination. In addition to convenience, this approach provides significant performance benefits, compared with running multiple cp/ln commands, one for each file.
One limit of the bulk approach is that the destination file name must match the source files name. There are multiple cases where this assumption is not true. Common example include copying of source files into a new directory layout, or renaming of files that can not be expressed based on rules. One common solution is to use a scripting engine (Python, Perl, Node), which can perform the operation without spinning a process per file. Simple for basic operation (especially, bulk renames), but those tools do not have the power/flexibility of cp, My suggestion: Add '--pairs' option to those tools, which will allow the tool to work on pairs of arguments, within the same invocation. cp --pairs ... -- source1 dest1 source2 dest2 source3 dest3 mv --pairs ... -- source1 dest1 source2 dest2 source3 dest3 Hope that development team will consider adding this feature into future release of cp/mv Yair
