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

[Alexander Skwar]

· Todd Slater <dontodd at gmail.com>:

> for deb in `find /top/level/directory -type f -iname '*.deb'`

*EXTREMELY* bad. What do you do, when there are file- and/or directory
names with spaces?

As a short hint, *NEVER* *EVER* use "for" and "find" in combination(*).
If you want to loop, use while!

find /top/level/directory -type f -iname '*.deb' | while read deb; do .... done

Alexander Skwar

(*) Okay, there may be ultra rare cases, where for and find might
make sense. Can't think of any, but there maybe.
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