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> find / -name 'fred*.xml' | cp - /home/fred/fredbackup
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> 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?
>also you want to do find -xdev also as otherwise if you run it again it'll find all the xml files in h/ome/fred/fredbackup and try to copy them onto themselves.. -xdev makes it stay in one filesystem.. Dave. > > > Stu > > > > -- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / [EMAIL PROTECTED] pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
