[ILUG] Help!

[P at draigBrady.com]

P at draigBrady.com wrote:
> 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,ab1}" | xargs cp --target-directory=final_folder

Rereading your question it's unclear as to whether the 100K files
have unique names and/or you want to maintain the existing hierarchy.
If so then append the --parents option to cp.

As an aside you can make an archive directly from those files like:

find . -name "*.{scf,ab1}" | xargs tar rf scf_ab1.tar

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