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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Single line backups with find or cat and xargs, etc Post 303040145 by MadeInGermany on Thursday 24th of October 2019 01:44:48 AM
Old 10-24-2019
The cp -t does the trick here, because you have the target directory first.
Both xargs and find -exec want constant arguments first.
Code:
find ~ -name "*.pdf" -exec  cp -t /new/directory {} +

Normally the cp has the target directory last. But only a few find versions allow
Code:
find ~ -name "*.pdf" -exec  cp {} /new/directory \;

or
Code:
find ~ -name "*.pdf" -exec  cp {} /new/directory +

 

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