Help with copy files from multiple directories one inside other of the same type to one directory

[Todd Slater]

On 7/29/06, José Paulo Matafome Oleiro <matafomeoleiro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  Hello I've need help because I can't copy all the *.deb files that I have in one directory for example like this structure of files:
>  main
>  |-sources|
>  |              |->a|
>  |                     |*.deb
>  |- multiples|
>                    |->c|
>                           |->*.deb (the deep of the directory are much bigger)
>
>  Only for example since they're more directorys under the main structure and I need to copy then to ~/filesdeb/*.deb the files need to be all here. I don't wan't to use nautilus to do such job because takes me too long since they're more then 5000 files.
>  How I can put this with one command on the shell?
>  Thanks in advance for you help

for deb in `find /top/level/directory -type f -iname '*.deb'`
do
cp "$deb" /some/other/directory/
done


HTH,

Todd