How to copy files with the same name in different source dir and rename in destination dir?

Question

I have a list of files in following structure:

 A/abc.zip
 B/abc.zip
 C/abc.zip

I want to use copy command to copy them:

$ cp */abc.zip ~/dest/

This seems to replace the file every time, how can I copy these files properly with Linux bash?

Say if I want to rename it to be dest/A-abc.zip, dest/B-abc.zip, dest/C-abc.zip?

if you use the --parents flag it should copy the folder paths to all of the abc.zip into dest — quasar, Oct 10 '18 at 14:54
This question deals with the problem of copying and renaming in one command: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/115813/how-to-rename-files-while-copying — Blair Nangle, Oct 10 '18 at 14:56
"I want to use the copy command" -- should we take this to mean you wouldn't accept any answer that *didn't* use `cp`? If not, how *should* we understand that line to reflect your intent? — Charles Duffy, Oct 10 '18 at 14:57
@CharlesDuffy, ideally cp or basic bash cmd, as I use an old cygwin, it does not support some advanced command. — Pythoner, Oct 10 '18 at 15:01
You should show your code so folks know where you are having trouble. All the parts of this question have been asked and answered previously. Possible duplicate of [Renaming files in a folder to sequential numbers](https://stackoverflow.com/q/3211595/608639), [Renaming a set of files to 001, 002, … on Linux](https://stackoverflow.com/q/880467/608639), etc. — jww, Oct 10 '18 at 18:45

Andor · Accepted Answer · 2018-10-11T08:31:12.613

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If you don't need to put everything in the same path, you could maintain the structure using --parent :

$ cp --parent */abc.zip ~/dest

$ tree ~/dest
~/dest
├── 1
│   └── abc.zip
├── 2
│   └── abc.zip
└── 3
    └── abc.zip

edited Oct 11 '18 at 08:31

answered Oct 10 '18 at 15:01

Andor

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