[ILUG] Help!

[P at draigBrady.com]

Thomas Adam wrote:
> 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 '.*\.\(scf\|ab1\)'

Argh you're right, find does not in fact support
brace expansion (it does support [] filename expansion (globbing)).

So as others have pointed out it should be:

find . -name '*.scf' -o -name '*.ab1' -print0 |
xargs -r0 cp --target-directory=final_folder

As I mentioned previously, add a --parents option to cp
to maintain the dir structure.

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