How to find files recursively by file type and copy them to a directory while in ssh

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I would like to find all the pdf files in a folder  It contains pdf files inside and more directories that contain more as well  The folder is located on a remote server I have ssh access to  I am using the mac terminal but I believe the server I am connecting to is Centos   I need to find all the pdfs and copy them all to one directory on the remote server  I ve tried about 10 variations with no luck  Both mine and the remote systems do not seem to recognise -exec as a command though exec is fine so thats a problem   Im not sure what the problem is here but the command does not fail it just sits there and stalls forever so I do not have any useful errors to post   cp   find -name    pdf  -type f  exec   pdfsfolder         sed 1q   find    tcs u25  Permission denied find    tcs u68  Permission denied -bash   var www html tcs dev sites default files pdfsfolder  is a directory -bash  exec   var www html tcs dev sites default files pdfsfolder  cannot execute  Success cp  target    runaways parents guide 2013 final pdf  is not a directory   This is the last one I tried  I think I can ignore the permission denied errors for now but im not sure about the rest

User · Answer

Something like this should work   ssh user ip addr  find -type f -name    pdf  -exec cp      pdfsfolder

User · Answer

Try this   find   -name    pdf  -type f -exec cp      pdfsfolder

User · Answer

Paul Dardeau answer is perfect  the only thing is  what if all the files inside those folders are not PDF files and you want to grab it all no matter the extension  Well just change it to  find   -name       -type f -exec cp      pdfsfolder      Just to sum up

[linux] How to find files recursively by file type and copy them to a directory while in ssh?

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