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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copying specific files Post 302178048 by faaron3 on Monday 24th of March 2008 11:59:44 AM
Old 03-24-2008
Copying specific files

I wanted to see if some one could confirm the proper command and format for copying specific files i.e., ones that contain certain character string in the file name. I would like to copy all files that contain a numeric sequence in the file name i.e., "922371". Files are compressed - *.gz. Would the command format shown below work okay?

cp *922371* directory_name
 

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ZLESS(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZLESS(1)

NAME
zless - file perusal filter for crt viewing of compressed text SYNOPSIS
zless [ name ... ] DESCRIPTION
Zless is a filter which allows examination of compressed or plain text files one screenful at a time on a soft-copy terminal. It is the equivalent of setting the environment variable LESSOPEN to '|gzip -cdfq -- %s', and the environment variable LESSMETACHARS to '<space><tab><newline>;*?"()<>[|&^`#$%=~', and then running less. However, enough people seem to think that having the command zless available is important to be worth providing it. SEE ALSO
zmore(1), less(1) BUGS
Zless does not work with compressed data that is piped to it via standard input; it requires that input files be specified as arguments. To read compressed data from a pipe, you can use ...|gunzip|less instead of ...|zless. COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (C) 1992, 1993 Jean-loup Gailly Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Foundation. ZLESS(1)
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