[ILUG] Help!

[Tanney, Austin]

Thanks everyone.. this one seems to be doing it. Taking its time 
but its a hell of a lot of data to move (about 10 gb). The funny 
thing is that its data thats stored on a windoze server but there 
is basically no percievable way to actually do this with windows 
so I had to mount the share on the Linux box and do it through this!

Cheers everyone

Austin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenn Humborg [mailto:kenn at bluetree.ie]
> Sent: 28 September 2004 15:59
> To: Tanney, Austin; ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: RE: [ILUG] Help!
> 
> 
> > 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 
> > 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 
> 
>    find . -name \*.scf -o -name \*.ab1 | xargs cp --target 
> ./final_folder
> 
> cp's --target-directory option was added to make it xargs-friendly.
> 
> Later,
> Kenn
> 
>