I thought this was cool enough to share.  I have not had to use it however so I doubt it is all that useful 😉

xargs -n 1 cp -v foo.txt<<<"/tmp1/ /tmp2/ /tmp3/"

Here we are copying one file named foo.txt to multiple directories called /tmp/1/, /tmp/2/, and /tmp/3 using xargs.  The xargs command construct argument list(s) and execute utility such as cp.

If you find a use for this let me know.  Backup copies seems useful but other than that…?

 

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