On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:00:47PM +1000, Matthew Melvin wrote:
> I think just leave off the second {} so you give it the target dir and the
> target name is infered. So...
>
> find /mnt/cdrom -type f -exec cp {} /home/BigDog/files/source/ \;
I will point out that there are two potential problems with this:
-If there are any spaces in the filenames, this will break.
Enclose the braces in double-quotes to prevent this.
-If there are any files with the same name but residing in
different directories, they'll be overwritten; at the end,
you'll only have the last filename. This isn't as easily
corrected; feed the output of the find to a script that builds
a list of files and uniquely renames duplicates, perhaps.
Cheers,
--
Dave Ihnat
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