[clug] Shell glob for a range of numbers?

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:42:50PM +1100, Damien Elmes wrote:
> David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> writes:
> 
> > Or, to avoid the loop in an excessively silly way:
> >
> > eval cp argus.log.\{`seq -s, 5 21`\} /tmp
> 
> I'll raise you 5.
> 
> seq 5 21 | xargs cp --target-directory=/tmp

But that doesn't actually do the right thing.  You'd need:

seq 5 21 | sed 's/^/argus.log./' | xargs cp --target-directory=/tmp

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