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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Recursive search for files and copy to new directories Post 302664565 by migurus on Friday 29th of June 2012 09:19:44 PM
Old 06-29-2012
In POSIX shell, like bash or ksh you can do something like this:

Code:
 
for n in $(cat your_acct_list); do 
        echo "Processing $n"; 
        find . -name "*${n}*" -type f | xargs -i ... {} target_here;    
done

The for construct will loop through the lines in the list, I put echo for you to see.

Put your copy/mv command here in xargs. The {} construct will be substituted with the actual names find command did find
You can run it without piping to xargs and see what exactly will happen, which files are found by find command.
 

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