topic Re: find command in Operating System - Linux

find command

Ravi_65 — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:20:01 GMT

Can we find some files in a particual dir and copy them to some different folders using a single command (find)?

Re: find command

Bojan Nemec — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:30:21 GMT

Hi,

You can use -exec.

$ find . -exec cp {} /newdir/ ';'

Bojan

Re: find command

Josef Forman — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:32:25 GMT

Hi!
I think yes, you can use "-exec {}" in find command.
Something like:

find . -name mountain.jpg -exec cp '{}' / \;

PF

Re: find command

Fred Ruffet — Tue, 27 Jul 2004 02:33:54 GMT

What are your search criteria for files ? Are they in a single directory or sub-directory ? Do you want to copy directory structure or not ?

In case of all file in all sub-dirs copied in a single dir, it looks like that :

find /search/dir -name "foo*" -exec cp {} /to/dir \;

Regards,

Fred