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

Alexander Skwar listen at alexander.skwar.name
Sun Jul 30 05:53:05 UTC 2006


· José Paulo Matafome Oleiro <matafomeoleiro at gmail.com>:

> 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

That's not what you should've done.  Why didn't you enter the command
that Todd had shown?

Alexander Skwar
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