Bash Tip: Create Several copies of a file

Here is a small command that can be used to copy a file to several other files. That is, if you have a file called test and you want 5 copies of it names test1,test2,…test5, you would use this command:

for i in {1..5}; do cp test{,$i};done

I have submitted it to commandlinefu which, is proving to be a pretty useful website.