On Sat, 4 May 2019 20:21:03 +0200 john doe <johndoe65...@mail.com> wrote:
> 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 Not for what I'm wanting -- See reply to Richard Ownes -- but for something else I'm working on, yes. Thanks B