do you want to cp all the fred*.xml or not copy all the fred*.xml?
find / -name 'fred*.xml' -exec cp {} /home/fred/fredbackup \;
should probably do it if you want the former...
normally I'd do the find and then use piped tars for the copy,
find / -name 'fred*.xml' > fileilist
tar -T filelist -cf - | ( cd /home/fred/fredbackup ; tar -xvf - )
use tar -X to exclude..
Dave.
On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
> I'm looking at excluding files from a directory to be copied to another
> disk.
>
> I cannot work out how to pipe the list of files into a cp command.
>
> eg
>
> find / -name 'fred*.xml' | cp - /home/fred/fredbackup
>
> bad example but the gist is the the - is a placeholder for the piped
> list of file names. Is there an easy way to do this with some obscure
> linux/unix syntax {}/\@ perhaps?
>
>
>
> Stu
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