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How do I copy a set of numbered files on the Linux command line?
I have several thousand numbered photos on my Linux machine with filenames of the form IMG_1234.jpg. Sometimes I want to copy some of them using the command line.
Suppose I want to copy images IMG_1000.jpg through IMG_1056.jpg to a new directory. Is there a one-line command I could use to do this?
I’m not too familiar with piping and I/O redirection, or with things like grep or sed, but I have been able to obtain a list of filenames for images IMG_1000.jpg through IMG_1099.jpg using:
$ ls | grep IMG_10..\.jpg > images.txt
I was thinking that I might somehow pipe the output of the grep command to cp, but I can’t figure out how to get cp to recognize the input.
An * is a wildcard for “anything”. A ? is a wildcard for “1 character” so the easiest answer would be
cp IMG_10??.jpg /target/dir
You can also replace any of the ? with a braced range such as
[2-5] for two thru five so your initial request of 1000 to 1056 could be done as
cp IMG_10[0-5]?.jpg /target/dir
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