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How to copy only matching files, preserving subdirectories
Is there a way to do this: "How can I copy a subset of files from a directory while preserving the folder structure?", but without using rsync?
Is it possible to be done using only cp, find and grep?
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How can you move (or copy) all files to a directory with the same filename prefix?
Using Bash
So let's say I have a bunch of files randomly placed in a parent directory ~/src, I want to grab all the files matching a certain suffix and move (or copy) them to a ~/dist directory.
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How can I copy a subset of files from a directory while preserving the folder structure?
I want to move some subset of files from dirA to dirB (let's say files with "blah" in the filename), but I want all the nested directories to be the same in the new location. How can I do that?
