Find and copy files

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Why does the following does not copy the files to the destination folder     find  home shantanu processed  -name   2011  xml  -exec cp  home shantanu tosend        cp  omitting directory   home shantanu tosend  cp  omitting directory   home shantanu tosend  cp  omitting directory   home shantanu tosend

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The reason for that error is that you are trying to copy a folder which requires -r option also to cp Thanks

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i faced an issue something like this     Actually  in two ways you can process find command output in copy command   If find command s output doesn t contain any space i e if file name doesn t contain space in it then you can use below mentioned command   Syntax  find  lt Path gt   lt Conditions gt    xargs cp -t  lt copy file path gt   Example  find -mtime -1 -type f   xargs cp -t inner  But most of the time our production data files might contain space in it  So most of time below mentioned command is safer   Syntax  find  lt path gt   lt condition gt  -exec cp       lt copy path gt      Example find -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp      inner       In the second example  last part i e semi-colon is also considered as part of find command  that should be escaped before press the enter button  Otherwise you will get an error something like this  find  missing argument to  -exec    In your case  copy command syntax is wrong in order to copy find file into  home shantanu tosend   The following command will work   find  home shantanu processed  -name   2011  xml  -exec cp      home shantanu tosend

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You need to use cp -t  home shantanu tosend in order to tell it that the argument is the target directory and not a source  You can then change it to -exec       in order to get cp to copy as many files as possible at once

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for i in   ls   do cp -r   i    i  dev  done

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If your intent is to copy the found files into  home shantanu tosend  you have the order of the arguments to cp reversed  find  home shantanu processed  -name   2011  xml  -exec cp  quot    quot   home shantanu tosend      Please  note  the find command use    as placeholder for matched file

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