copy data to multiple locations.

[madman045]

I need to copy two files from one folder, to 16 profile folders & then delete one file in another folder.

Whats the easiest way to do this?

Is it going to be a batch file with all the paths specified & would I be able to include the deleting part aswell?

Thanks

[directhex]

#!/bin/bash

for i in name1 name2 name3 name4 name5 name6 name7 name8 name9 name10 name11 name12 name13 name14 name15 name16
do
   cp /path/to/source/file /path/to/profiles/$i/rest/of/path/
   rm whatever
done

[madman045]

thanks directx, confused lol!!

its on a windows 2003 server.

[Paul Adams]

A batch file might look something like this:

for %%i in ({space-delimited list of usernames}) do copy {path to source file 1} "c:\documents and settings\%%i\{destination path relative to user home folder}\"
for %%i in ({space-delimited list of usernames}) do copy {path to source file 2} "c:\documents and settings\%%i\{destination path relative to user home folder}\"
for %%i in ({space-delimited list of usernames}) do del "c:\documents and settings\%%i\{path to file to delete}\"

Example where:
- source files are C:\folder1\file1.lnk and C:\folder2\file2.lnk
- usernames are Larry, Curly & Moe
- destination for files is each users' desktop
- files to delete are links on the users' desktops

for %%i in (Larry Curly Moe) do copy C:\folder1\file1.lnk "c:\documents and settings\%%i\desktop\"
for %%i in (Larry Curly Moe) do copy C:\folder2\file2.lnk "c:\documents and settings\%%i\desktop\"
for %%i in (Larry Curly Moe) do del "c:\documents and settings\%%i\desktop\old-link.lnk"

An alternative could be to have a pair of batch files, the first has the for loop with the list of the 16 usernames and it calls the second (with "%%i" as the argument) which does all 3 tasks in one.
This is really only a difference between depth-first and breadth-first iterative methods, for 16 users and only 3 commands keep it simple.

(Don't forget quotes around path arguments if they contain spaces.)

[madman045]

Thank you Mr Adams!