Bash: for loop, copy, backup
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Hey, not 100% sure what this error means.
% for f in "*" ; do cp $f ../backup/backup$f ; done
cp: ../backup/backup* not found
The purpose is to copy all the files into a folder into a backup folder and rename the files to backup.
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