Re: [SLUG] find -exec cp {} current-directory.messages

[Jamie Wilkinson]

This one time, at band camp, Raoul Golan said:
>That doesn't work.

Yeah, I realised this just after I sent it.

How about:

find . -name 'files.bbs' -print | while read file; do cp $file `dirname
$file`/.messages; done

Herberts was (as usual) the best answer :)

-- 
jamesw

<Jaq> what's wrong with the default? :)
<jdub> It is poopie.

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