Copy multiple files or directories to multiple locations

multi-cp.sh

#!/bin/bash
k=0
l=0
flag=1
files=()
locs=()
for i in $@
do
	if [ "$i" = "," ]
	then
		flag=0
		continue
	fi
	if [ $flag -eq 1 ]
	then	
		files+=($i)
	else
		
		locs+=($i)
	fi
done
echo ${locs[@]} | xargs -n 1 cp -rv $(echo ${files[@]})

Multi File copier script

This script enables you to copy multiple files/directories from multiple sources to multiple locations.

How to Run

• Download the script.
• chmod 755 multi-cp.sh
• ./multi-cp.sh [file/dir1 file/dir2 ...] , [loc1 loc2 loc3 ...]
  (Additionally, you can sudo mv multi-cp.sh /usr/bin/multi-cp to have this script available globally)

You might want to look at IFS in bash.