Copy files from one directory to another - Shell Programming and Scripting

HAA · #1 07-05-2006

Hi

when copy the files from one directory to another as like below,it is tried to copy *.[Cc][Ss][Vv] as a file.
cp /home/rha/*.[Dd][Aa][Tt]

My objective is to copy all the files (don't care about case sensitive),
Thanks in advance for your valuable reply.

vino · #2 07-05-2006

Code:

find /home/rha -iname "*.dat" -exec cp {} /destination/dir \;

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