Copy by extension
Rashkae
ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Fri Oct 17 16:52:37 UTC 2008
Ed Jabbour wrote:
> I'm looking for an app that will descend into a directory and its subs, find
> all files with a .foo extension and copy them to the bar directory. There are
> a lot of files, so doing it manually would be tiresome. If cp has that
> functionality, I can't find it. Thanks.
>
Use the find command..
You'll have to research the man page, but the gist of it is, you want
find files based on name '*.foo' or maybe .*foo as a regexp.
Then use find's { } construct to use cp command on the files it finds.
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