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copy after grep
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 
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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 Code:
grep -l get * | xargs -i cp {} test
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