Copy .deb files from separate dir to /var/cache/apt/archives

[Florian Diesch]

Thilo Six <T.Six at gmx.de> wrote:

> OOzy Pal wrote the following on 28.10.2006 20:01:
>> How can I copy a bunch of .deb files from multiple directories to
>> /var/cache/apt/archives in one shot to avoid downloading again.
>
> e.g. ones i copied the debs from the alternate cd to
> /var/cache/apt/archives. I used:
>
> sudo cp -v /media/cdrom/pool/*/*/*/*deb /var/cache/apt/archives/

if you don't want to care about the path depth:
 find /media/cdrom/pool -name \*.deb | sudo xargs -i cp -v {} /var/cache/apt/archives/

Using zsh it's just
 sudo cp -v /media/cdrom/pool/**/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/


   Florian
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