[ILUG] Help!

[Thomas Adam]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 03:49:51PM +0100, P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> Tanney, Austin wrote:

> find . -name "*.{scf,ab1}" | xargs cp --target-directory=final_folder

This fails because find won't find any files. Why? Because although:

echo *.{scf,ab1}

At the shell, globs to the filenames that end in either scf or ab1, the
command "find" does not do parameter expansion, since it is not parsed at the
shell. What you were really after in your find construct is:

find . -regex '.*\.\(scf\|ab1\)'

-- Thomas Adam

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