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

[José Paulo Matafome Oleiro]

This command ---> find /top/level/directory -type f -iname '*.deb'
(showed all the files that exists in the directory's)
but when I execute the command   cp "$deb" /home/user/destination
directory    (it shows cp: can execute stat '$deb': No such file or
directory

It's all that I know that happens

Sáb, 2006-07-29 às 16:53 +0200, Alexander Skwar escreveu:

> · José Paulo Matafome Oleiro <matafomeoleiro at gmail.com>:
> 
> > The command
> > deb in `find /top/level/directory -type f -iname '*.deb'`    (has just
> > worked and showed all files)
> 
> What did you do? It shouldn't *show* any files. Also, what command
> are you talking about? What did you type?
> 
> Anyway, as it's very bad to use find with for, you shouldn't
> even get used to it. Better use the "while" alternative, or,
> for this purpose, the alternative with xargs.
> 
> > but this down doesn't work 
> > 
> > do
> > cp "$deb" /some/other/directory/
> 
> How does it not work? How did you verify?
> 
> Come on, please be more verbose! YOU want to get something done, thus
> YOU have got to make it so, that it's EASY to help you. Right now, you're
> NOT doing this.
> 
> Alexander Skwar
> -- 
> Soldaten:
>   Meßergebnisse bei Sol-Eiern
> 
> 
> 

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