Sorry, i'm certainly doing sothing wrong, but i just put the line or foo in *.dist; do cp $foo basename $foo .dist; done in a file, i've done the chmod 755 and run the file, here is the result. :s

> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 15:03:12 +0200
> From: Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de
> To: otrs@otrs.org
> Subject: Re: [otrs] Problem configuring cron
>
> * Trasschaert Karl <karlzre@hotmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I've the same problem:
> > administrator@ubuntu10:/opt/otrs/var/cron$ sudo for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `do'
>
> The ; ends the sudo command. Apply quotes or put
> for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo basename $foo .dist; done
> into a file and use:
>
> chmod 755 file
> sudo ./file
>
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