Bulk copy/paste of folders/sub folders/files

Hi guys,
I want to take a joomla installation on a hosting account on my server and replicate it 5-10000 times.
So take the public_html folder and all files and folders under it, and copy/paste it to folders that I name eg public_html/a/copy1, public_html/a/copy2 and so on and so on.

The database replication of joomla installs etc I have under control, at this stage I just wish to bulk copy/paste and control the folder name I paste the install to.

(folder names will be based on the end site name hence why I need to control it).

Is there a WHM plugin or root/shell script that can do this? Any ideas on how to go about it?

Is there a php function that can do this?

Thanks

 

#!/bin/bash
for n in {1..2}
do
        cp -R public_html/a  "public_html/a_$n"
done

Code (markup):

Hope this helps