I have a list of files with consecutive numbers as suffixes. I would like to copy only a range of these files. How can I specify a range as part of my cp command.
$ls P1080272.JPG* P1080273.JPG* P1080274.JPG* P1080275.JPG* P1080276.JPG* P1080277.JPG* P1080278.JPG* P1080279.JPG* P1080280.JPG* P1080281.JPG* P1080282.JPG* P1080283.JPG* I would like to copy files from P1080275.JPG to P1080283.JPG with something similar to:
$cp P10802[75-83].JPG ~/Images/. Is there a way to do this?
You were very close. Your question was almost the correct syntax:
cp P10802{75..83}.JPG ~/Images To iterate over a range in bash:
for x in {0..10}; do echo $x; done Applying the same in your case:
for x in {272..283}; do cp P1080$x.JPG ~/Images; done Zsh, with the extendedglob option has the globbing (pattern matching) operator.
setopt extendedglob echo P10802<75-83>.JPG will match filenames in the current directory that match that pattern (beware that P1080275.JPG matches but so does P108020000000075.JPG)
On the other end, the {x...y} string expansion operator (supported by zsh and recent versions of bash and ksh93), expands to the strings from x to y, regardless of what files there are in the current directory.
cp P10802<75-83>.JPG ~there will copy the matching files, so will
cp P10802{75..83}.JPG ~there But you'll get errors if for instance P1080281.JPG doesn't exist.
Would this work for you:
for each in {75..83}; do cp P10802$each.JPG ~/Images/; done 