Questions tagged [pax]

pax is the POSIX standard archiving utility - use this tag for questions about installing or using it

pax is the "portable archive interchange" utility and format:

The pax utility was new for the ISO POSIX-2:1993 standard. It represents a peaceful compromise between advocates of the historical tar and cpio utilities.
- POSIX specification of the pax utility

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want to copy multiple *.txt files from several directories to the same directory but rename the new file

I have atleast 2-3 *.txt files inside several hundred directories. What I need is: 1. copy the *.txt from every directory to the same directory but by renaming the filename to *_name.txt (* should be the original name of the .txt and the string…

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asked Jan 04 '17 at 15:28

Sameer