A shell function to duplicate a VMWare Fusion 5 virtual machine, including renaming the innards.

function.zsh

function duplicate_vm() {
  local from_name=$1
  local to_name=$2
  
  cp -r $from_name.vmwarevm $to_name.vmwarevm
  pushd $to_name.vmwarevm  > /dev/null

  rm vmware*.log

  mv $from_name.nvram $to_name.nvram
  mv $from_name.plist $to_name.plist
  mv $from_name.vmsd $to_name.vmsd
  mv $from_name.vmx $to_name.vmx
  mv $from_name.vmxf $to_name.vmxf

  sed -i '' "s/$from_name/$to_name/" $to_name.vmxf
  sed -i '' "s/$from_name/$to_name/" $to_name.vmx
  sed -i '' "s/$from_name/$to_name/" $to_name.plist

  popd > /dev/null
}