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Old 02-09-2006
Find command not working as expected
I have a script with a find command using xargs to copy the files found to another directory. The find command is finding the appropriate file, but it's not copying. I've checked permissions, and those are all O.K., so I'm not sure what I'm missing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

This is the command I'm running:

find /srcdir/ . -name '*.txt.gz' -mtime -2 | xargs cp {} /trgtdir/

This is what I see when I run from command line:

cp: /srcdir/srcfile.txt.gz: Error 0

So, it's finding the correct file, but there is nothing being copied in the /trgtdir/.
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Old 02-09-2006
I don't use xargs too often (using it more though) but I believe this will work
Code:
find /srcdir/ . -name '*.txt.gz' -mtime -2 | xargs -I {} cp {} /trgtdir/

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Old 02-09-2006
Oh...YEEEHAWWW!!!

Thank you soooo much!

This is exactly what I needed!!!!!
 
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