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

[Alexander Skwar]

· Jhair Tocancipa Triana <jhair.tocancipa at gmail.com>:

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

This might fail, as soon as there are special characters in the
file/directory names (like \n (line feed)). For this reason, it's
much better to use "-print0" for find and "--null" for xargs, like
so:

find main -name \*.deb -print0 | xargs -0i cp \{\} ~/filesdeb

Also, it's not necessary to escape the { and }, thus the following
is better and easier:

find main -name \*.deb -print0 | xargs -0i cp {} ~/filesdeb

Alexander Skwar
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