On Tuesday 28 September 2004 15:34, Tanney, Austin wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>> I have a bit of a problem and I was wondering if anyone out there would be
> able to help. Basically, I wasn't to copy a whole bunch of files from a
> whole bunch of directories into one final directory. Essentially I have
> about 1000 folders, each of which contains 100 files (50 each of two file
> types *.scf and *.ab1) which I am endeavouring to move to another folder.
> obviously using
> cp ./*/*.scf ./final_folder
find -name '*.scf' -or -name '*.ab1' | while read x; do cp -vf $x final_folder; done
> doesn't work as there are two many arguments. I've tried a variety of xargs
> commands too but have had no success so far. If anyone has any suggestions
> they would be very greatly appreciated.
> If you could reply to me off list that would be ideal as I often don't get
> time to go through the digests.
> Oh.. and before anyone says anything... apologies for the long disclaimer
>>> Austin
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