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Old 05-26-2009
panyam panyam is offline Forum Advisor  
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Code:
find . ! -name "a.dat" ! -name "rem.txt" -name "*.dat" |xargs  -i  cp {} DEST


When i executed the above command , all files except a.dat file copied to the DEST folder. Although (a.dat fall under *.dat , find still excludes tht file).

In your case exclude all the 4 files , by putting their filenames in the commnad above and try.