copy after grep

finalight · #1 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

i think i got the order wrongly...

cp|grep "get" * test

it says argument for cp is 0

i only just want to copy files with the grep input pattern (all are text files definitely) from one directory into another

era · #2 (**permalink**) 05-16-2008

You can't pipe cp to grep, that doesn't make sense. A pipeline takes the output from one command and feeds it as input to the next. So the output from cp is what you grep -- that's not what you want.

Where is the destination directory; is that test?

You want to copy all files which match the input pattern?

Code:

cp `grep -l get *` test

or

Code:

grep -l get * | xargs -i cp {} test

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