Note that unless you happen to be sitting in /home/emd/Desktop when you run this script, mkdir will create 1234 in whatever directory you're sitting in; not necessarily /home/emd/Desktop.

It has already been mentioned that if you use -0 on xargs, you need to use -print0 on find; but neither of these are available on Solaris systems (unless you have the GNU utilities installed). But, unless there are whitespace characters (<space>, <tab>, and <newline>) or quotes (<single-quote> or <double-quote>) in your filenames, you don't need them (and your sample names don't appear to need them).

Since you are using -type f in find, cp won't be given any directories as operands (other than the target directory given as the last operand), the -r option is a no-op.

But, with the xargs -I or -i option, one of which is needed if you don't want xargs to add the pathnames read from standard input to the end of the constructed cp command line; xargs will only pass one pathname from standard input as an operand to cp at a time. So, xargs is a waste of time. A simpler script that should work on both Ubuntu and Solaris systems is:

Code:

dest="/home/emd/Desktop/1234"
mkdir -p "$dest"
find /home/emd/Desktop/n007/M007/ -type f -name "A2014*" -exec cp {} "$dest" \;