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09-16-2010

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jlliagre,

Your answers make perfect sense! This is very much appreciated. I'll study the "find" command.

This was sort of 'wigging me out' until you explained matters. Here in this script we have a seemingly bizarre example of connecting the output of one command to the input of another, and all without the use of a pipe! But of course "find" with its "-exec" option is doing much for us in this regard - so things make sense after all.

Thanks again!

---------- Post updated at 01:57 PM ---------- Previous update was at 10:56 AM ----------

One final question:

Given the script:

Code:

    find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*' -exec cp -v {} $2 \;

which copies ALL regular files from $1 (source dir) to $2 (dest. dir)

How can I make this script take a file-pattern for -name instead of using '*', so that I can use the script to cp only the files I want?

Code:

          find $1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -name $2 -exec cp -v {} $3 \;

does not work if you use a wildcard like * in your 2nd parameter. What needs to be done to allow the use of a special char like * ?

Last edited by Scott; 09-16-2010 at 05:06 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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