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I wanted to see if some one could confirm the proper command and format for copying specific files i.e., ones that contain certain character string in the file name. I would like to copy all files that contain a numeric sequence in the file name i.e., "922371". Files are compressed - *.gz. Would the command format shown below work okay?

cp *922371* directory_name

Simply try:

Code:

ls *922371*

to see if you get the proper files.

Regards

I tried using the command shown in my original posting:

copy *922371* /home/name/folder

The response was as follows:

CORRECT>tcopy *922371* /home/name/folder (y|n|e|a)?

I selected "y" option and the response was as follows:

Usage: tcpy src [dest]

A check of the folder using ls indicated that my command did not work...Perhaps it's because I am working within a terminal shell?

Code:

cp *922371* directory_name

should work for what you plan to do. Even better, if you know the files will end with ".gz" then I would take it a step further and say

Code:

cp *922371*.gz directory_name

I guess the only other thing to note is to make sure that you run this in the directory where the files exist. Otherwise, do this if you know where the files live then do something like this.

Code:

cp /home/me/myfiles/*922371*.gz /home/me/backups