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How to copy files with only certain information
I need to copy a list of files in directory and only files with content DUMMY_B should be copy over to a new directory. How can i do that ? Thanks a lot.
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Old 10-04-2012
grep "DUMMY_B" *; cp -p /targetdirectory.

Lol I hope it would help Smilie
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Code:
 
grep -l "DUMMY_B" *; while read file; do echo cp $file newdirectory/; done

remove the echo, if you are fine with the output
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