Here's an update to cpic that fixes cases where one copies images from other than the current directory
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#!/bin/sh
# copy image and changes
force=0
if [ "$1" = -f ]; then
force=1
shift
fi
if [ $# != 2 -o "$1" = "-?" -o "$1" = --help ]; then
echo "usage: $0 [-f] image-name-no-ext [image-name-no-ext|dir]"
test $# != 2 && exit 1
exit 0
fi
if [ -f "$2.image" -o -f "$2.changes" ]; then
if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then
echo "$2.image and/or $2.changes already exist." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
elif [ -d "$2" ]; then
if [ -f "$2/`basename "$1"`.image" -o -f "$2/`basename "$1"`.changes" ]; then
if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then
echo "$2/`basename "$1"`.image and/or $2/`basename "$1"`.changes already exist." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
fi
cp "$1.image" "$1.changes" "$d"
exit 0
fi
cp "$1.image" "$2.image"
cp "$1.changes" "$2.changes"

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All,

    don't know if this is useful to you or whether you've already written it yourself but I finally caved and wrote a shell command that copies an image/changes file pair, replacing the hundreds of times I've issued the two parallel commands, cpic = copy image and changes.  Happy holidays
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#!/bin/sh
# copy image and changes
force=0
if [ "$1" = -f ]; then
    force=1
    shift
fi
if [ $# != 2 -o "$1" = "-?" -o "$1" = --help ]; then
    echo "usage: $0 [-f] image-name-no-ext [image-name-no-ext|dir]"
    test $# != 2 && exit 1
    exit 0
fi
if [ -f "$2.image" -o -f "$2.changes" ]; then
    if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then
        echo "$2.image and/or $2.changes already exist." 1>&2
        exit 1
    fi
elif [ -d "$2" ]; then
    if [ -f "$2/$1.image" -o -f "$2/$1.changes" ]; then
        if [ "$force" = 0 ]; then
            echo "$2/$1.image and/or $2/$1.changes already exist." 1>&2
            exit 1
        fi
    fi
    cp "$1.image" "$1.changes" "$d"
    exit 0
fi
cp "$1.image" "$2.image"
cp "$1.changes" "$2.changes"