UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

As MadeInGermany pointed out, cp is failing because xargs calls it with multiple arguments and the final argument is not a directory.

Further, if the use of fgrep is intended to select files that end with a .deb extension, then it is incorrect. That fgrep will match filenames with a .deb embedded at any spot. The correct filter would be grep '\.deb$', which anchors the pattern to the end of the name.

A minor nit: you don't need to use -1 with ls when writing to a pipe. ls detects the situation automatically.

One possible, portable approach:

Code:

ls | sed '/\.deb$/!d; /jdownloader/d' | pax -rw /media/eshant/L-STORE/Softwares/openjdk/

Regards,
Alister

You're right. It was a basic problem with the command line. xargs appends arguments. It should have been:

Code:

xargs -I FILE cp FILE /media/eshant/L-STORE/Softwares/openjdk/

Or, if it only needs to run on a GNU userland, cp -t dir ....

Regards,
Alister