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

[José Paulo Matafome Oleiro]

This hadn't work. I'm using ubuntu dapper 6.06. Any tool can do this.
But this tool need to be pre-installed with the system. Thanks for your
time.

Sáb, 2006-07-29 às 07:26 -0400, Todd Slater escreveu:

> 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
> 

Sincerely
José Oleiro aka Matafome (#computers at irc.ptnet.org)
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