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HI everyone,

I been to this site before for help and found my answers on other threads now I am posting my own .

I have a list of file names with out extensions on an txt file. I need a way for the script to search on the server for each file name and copy the files over to a new directory. Does anyone know how to?

I tried running
xargs -a gold.txt cp /path/directoy/ but i got an error.
I know this is close to what I need but i know it will ask for path of each file which I don't have. I would really appreciate the help. Thank you.

Code:

cat gold.txt | while read FILE_NME
do
    FL_NME_PATH=`find / -type f -name "$FILE_NME" `
    
    cp $FILE_NME_PATH /path/directory/
done

cp can be done in find's exec clause, also "cat" is not needed:

Code:

while read FILE; do
  find / -name "$FILE" -type f -exec cp {} /path/directory/ \;
done < gold.txt

I am running it right now thank you. But the file names don't have extensions. inside the .txt file the names are like ER3021 but I need to find file ER3021.jpg or .gif will that work?

Nope. For that to work use this:

Code:

while read FILE; do
  find / -name "$FILE.*" -type f -exec cp {} /path/directory/ \;
done < gold.txt

now sorry to be a bother but last thing. Can I specify where to search? like I want it to search inside folder /home/neigroup/files/ instead of the whole server.

Code:

while read FILE; do
  find /home/neigroup/files/ -name "$FILE.*" -type f -exec cp {} /path/directory/ \;
done < gold.txt