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That was the final step I needed, DGPickett! Making the script executable took care of it.

Thanks for the assist, I really appreciate it!

Thanks, bash-o-logist!
I tried your solution, but was getting an error on line 3 of the shopt command.

My overall script asks the user for a source path, and a destination path, then reads file...

Thanks for the assist! It got me a bit further along.

I ended up with the following:

xlscnt=`find . -type f -iname '*.xls*' | tee >(cpio -dumpv &outpath) |wc -l`

from a command line, this...

Hi all:

Here's my dilemma: to identify files of a specific type, copy them to a new location while preserving the original file attributes (date, time, full path, etc), and at the same time...