On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > Looking for a simple way to do a big copy at the command line. I > have a bunch of files (maybe 100 right now, but it will grow) that I > can find with locate and grep: > > c2stable ~ # locate Correlation | grep Builder | grep csv > > /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11-V1.csv > > /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11-V2.csv > > /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-17M-2009_06-2010_11-V3.csv > <SNIP> > > /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11-V4.csv > > /home/mark/Builder/TF/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11/Correlation/TF.D-31M-2009_06-2010_11-V5.csv > c2stable ~ # > > I need to copy these files to a new directory > (~mark/CorrelationTests) where I will modify what's in them before > running correlation tests on the contents. > > How do I feed the output of the command above to cp at the command > line to get this done? > > I've been playing with things like while & read but I can't get it > right. > > Thanks, > Mark > > Another way to do it is with find: find /home/mark/Builder -type f -iname '*csv' -exec cp {} ~mark/CorrelationTests \; If catching the *csv is not enough, you can use -ipath instead of -iname and do something like this: -ipath '*Builder*csv' this will match all the path. Regards, Kfir