Copy and Rename at the same time - No such file or directory

Question

shuf -zn1 -e *.jpg | xargs -0 cp -vt /home/myspace/
result i.e. Image00005.jpg

BUT, I want to rename the file at the same time i.e. Image00005.jpg to Image.jpg

Tried:

shuf -zn1 -e *.jpg | xargs -0 cp -vt /home/myspace/image.jpg
cp: failed to access '/home/twitter/image.jpg': No such file or directory

Any idea?

/home/myspace? /home/twitter? O.o Also: -t always expects a directory. — muru, Aug 24 '17 at 10:21
cp: failed to access '/home/myspace/image.jpg': No such file or directory — Confluentes Info, Aug 24 '17 at 10:33
Are you trying to copy one random file to a fixed name or did I miss something? — pim, Aug 24 '17 at 10:41

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 24 '17 at 10:34

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Since the -t form of cp only accepts a target directory, you will need to use the traditional SOURCE TARGET form e.g.

shuf -zn1 -e *.jpg | xargs -0 -I{} cp -v {} /home/myspace/image.jpg

answered Aug 24 '17 at 10:34

steeldriver

Thanks, but getting --- shuf -zn1 -e *.jpg | xargs -0 Image00002.jpg
shuf -zn1 -e *.jpg | xargs -0 -I{} cp -v /home/myspace/image.jpg cp: missing destination file operand after '/home/myspace/image.jpg' Try 'cp --help' for more information.
– Confluentes Info Aug 24 '17 at 10:45
Did you remember to include the {} in the cp command? – steeldriver Aug 24 '17 at 10:50

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