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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Cpio all *.txt-files out of folders to just one directory Post 302951697 by 1in10 on Sunday 9th of August 2015 08:19:09 PM
Old 08-09-2015
Cpio all *.txt-files out of folders to just one directory
I need a hint for reading manpage (I did rtfm really) of cpio to do this task as in the headline described. I want to put all files of a certain type, lets say all *.txt files or any other format. Spread in more than hundreds of subdirectories in one directory I would like to select them and just move, copy them all in one directory. As using the following comand it gets me some trouble, may someone could give me a hint.
Code:
find /path/to/folder .*.txt -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd ../new/folder

Thanks in advance!!!
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

cpio

CPIO(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   CPIO(1)

NAME

       cpio - copy files to and from archives

SYNOPSIS

       cpio   {-o|--create}   [-0acvABLV]   [-C   bytes]   [-H	 format]   [-M	message]  [-O  [[user@]host:]archive]  [-F  [[user@]host:]archive]
       [--file=[[user@]host:]archive]  [--format=format]  [--message=message]  [--null]  [--reset-access-time]	[--verbose]   [--dot]	[--append]
       [--block-size=blocks]  [--dereference] [--io-size=bytes] [--quiet] [--force-local] [--rsh-command=command] [--help] [--version] < name-list
       [> archive]

       cpio {-i|--extract} [-bcdfmnrtsuvBSV] [-C bytes] [-E file] [-H format] [-M message] [-R [user][:.][group]] [-I  [[user@]host:]archive]  [-F
       [[user@]host:]archive]  [--file=[[user@]host:]archive]  [--make-directories] [--nonmatching] [--preserve-modification-time] [--numeric-uid-
       gid] [--rename] [-t|--list] [--swap-bytes] [--swap] [--dot] [--unconditional] [--verbose] [--block-size=blocks]	[--swap-halfwords]  [--io-
       size=bytes]  [--pattern-file=file]  [--format=format] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no-preserve-owner] [--message=message] [--force-local]
       [--no-absolute-filenames] [--sparse] [--only-verify-crc] [--to-stdout] [--quiet] [--rsh-command=command] [--help] [--version]  [pattern...]
       [< archive]

       cpio {-p|--pass-through} [-0adlmuvLV] [-R [user][:.][group]] [--null] [--reset-access-time] [--make-directories] [--link] [--quiet] [--pre-
       serve-modification-time] [--unconditional] [--verbose] [--dot] [--dereference] [--owner=[user][:.][group]] [--no-preserve-owner] [--sparse]
       [--help] [--version] destination-directory < name-list

REPORTING BUGS

       Report cpio bugs to bug-cpio@gnu.org

       GNU cpio home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/>

       General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

       Report cpio translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

SEE ALSO

       cpio(5)

DESCRIPTION

       GNU cpio is fully documented in the texinfo documentation. To access the help from your command line, type

       info cpio

       The online copy of the documentation is available at the following address:

       http://www.gnu.org/software/cpio/manual

																	   CPIO(1)
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