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

Jhair Tocancipa Triana jhair.tocancipa at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 12:53:37 UTC 2006


José Paulo Matafome Oleiro writes:

> 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

find main -name \*.deb -print | xargs -i cp \{\} ~/filesdeb

HTH,

-- 
--Jhair





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