[ILUG] A new copying files problem

[Fergal Daly]

Not quite clear on the problem but if you mean that each of the files has a
different name but that they all contain the word "notes" in their filename
then try

cp `find Paul -name '*notes*'` target_dir/

should do it, as long as there are less than about 16000 of them and none of
the directories or file have spaces in their names. More than 16000 will
give "argument list too long" (at least it does in my shell) and names with
spaces will get buggered up altogether because "Paul/docs dir/notes" will
look like 2 files: "Paul/docs" and "dir/notes",

Fergal


On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:38:31PM +0100, 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
> 
> 
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