Linux commands to copy one file to many files

Question

Is there a one-line command/script to copy one file to many files on Linux?

cp file1 file2 file3

copies the first two files into the third.

Answer 1

The simplest/quickest solution I can think of is a for loop:

for target in file2 file3 do; cp file1 "$target"; done

A dirty hack would be the following (I strongly advise against it, and only works in bash anyway):

eval 'cp file1 '{file2,file3}';'