copy certain files from subdirectories - Shell Programming and Scripting

iomaire · #1 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005

Hi all,
I'd very grateful for some help with the following.

I have a variable number of subdirectories each of which contain a uniquely names results file of the form Results*.dat.

I would like to search through all subdirectories and copy out these results file to another directory so that I can combine them, diff them etc.

find . -name Results*.dat

will find all the files for me. How should I pass this to cp (copy)?

Thanks,
E

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 10-03-2005

Code:

find . -name Results*.dat -exec cp {} /destination/dir \;

Read the man page for -exec

vino

iomaire · #3 (**permalink**) 10-05-2005

Thanks very much

pixelbeat · #4 (**permalink**) 10-06-2005

find dir/ -name 'Results*.dat' | xargs cp -a --target-directory=/dest/dir --parents

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