[ILUG] A new copying files problem

[Padraig Brady]

Yes that is confusing. I think from what you're saying all that's
different from the previous e.g. is that you only want to copy
specific filenames. If they can be specified by shell wildcards
it's trivial, i.e.:

find /dir -type f -name "basename*" -print0 |
xargs -r0 cp -pi --target-directory=/target/dir

note it things are more complex you can do:

find /dir -type f \( -name "basename*" -or -name "another*" \) -print0 |
xargs -r0 cp -pi --target-directory=/target/dir

Padraig.

Paul McCourt wrote:

> Seeing as you guys are on this topic, what about the following problem.
> 
> I want to copy a specfic file which is located in every directory in a dir
> structure.  See below, the file has notes in the filename and theres a
> different one located in each directory, I want something to go into each
> dir, and copy the file to another target directory along with the others
> 
> Paul
>   |
>   - home
>   |
>   - office
>   |
>   - work
> 
> 
> Confused? I'm sorry I couldn't make it any more murky.
> 
> thanks
> 
> Paul