Probably not with find alone, but a bit of for; do; done script should get
it fixed.
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Terry Collins wrote:
> Is there a way of telling find to copy a file in the directory where it
> finds it?
>
> I'm trying to run find . -name files.bbs -exec cp {} .messages \;
> but this just copies each files.bbs into .message in the directory where
> the command is run, rather than the directories where each files.bbs
> exists
>
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