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How to copy a list of files and adjust destination filenames on the fly?
When I don't need to adjust destination filenames I can do something like this:
$ find -type f -name '*.pat' -print0 | xargs -O cp -t /path/to/dest
It is safe because the filenames may even ...
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Use find + sed + cp to find files and copy them to a directory with a different name
I'm trying to copy a bunch of files named folder.jpg into a folder. The problem is because all the files are named the same thing, I need to rename them in the process. I know I can probably do it ...
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How to copy a piped list of files contained spaces and apostrophes?
I have a list of files generated using find that I want to feed (pipe) to cp. My problem is that the files have spaces and apostrophes in them, leading cp to repeatedly complain that it "cannot stat". ...
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Make directory copies using find
I have a directory with a bunch of subdirectories in it. Thus
/usr/local/src/ccl/ccl-1.8/x86-headers$ ls
elf gl gmp gnome2 gtk2 jni libc
Each of these directories has a further subdirectory C ...
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Copy files in different subdirectories that excludes a string
I'm trying to copy all files of a type in a given directory and subdirectories but excluding files of a different type.
find /var/ftp/pub/bs -iname "*foo*.foo" -exec cp {} /var/ftp/pub/bs1 \;
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recursively copy only images and preserve path
I'm working on a website migration. I have a scrape of the site, with all the files and directory structure as you would see them in the URL. I want to pull all images, maintaining the directory ...
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How to copy all html files from a directory tree to a single directory?
I want to copy all the .html files in myDir and its subdirectories to ~/otherDir. Here's what I tried (it doesn't work):
$ find myDir -name *.html -print | xargs -0 cp ~/otherDir
usage: cp [-R [-H | ...
