Help Cron: syntax error near unexpected token `do'

[tfraley]

Good day,

New user trying to set things up almost there got stumped on setting up cron job's

wondering if anyone could lend a hand.

I am trying to run the following command and receiving a syntax error.

support@support:/opt/otrs/var/cron$ sudo for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'

OTRS: Version 3.0.10
Ubuntu Server: 11.04

Thanks in advance.

FYI: basically running though this wiki article for the install
http://wiki.otrs.org/index.php?title=In ... %2810.4%29

[Lorenzo_Marschall]

don't mess up with your sudo.

[rpsu]

You're trying to access a whole loop with sudo. Sudo is for swithcing to 'root' to execute something and you can not do it like that. Move 'sudo' right before actual command instead of your loop.

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for foo in *.dist ; do sudo cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done