[ILUG] Help!

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Kenn Humborg wrote:

>   find . -name \*.scf -o -name \*.ab1 | xargs cp --target ./final_folder
>
> cp's --target-directory option was added to make it xargs-friendly.

why not:

find . \(-name '*.scf' -o name '*.ab1'\) -a -exec cp {} <final dir>\;

?

I'm sure xargs is great and all that, but what's the point of it 
exactly when ye good olde POSIX find has -exec? ;)

regards,
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