Re: copy many files filtering extensions

[Johannes Zarl <johannes.zarl@ahl.uni-linz.ac.at>]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 16:10, Mat wrote:
> I have to periodically copy a lot of files filtering them by their
> extensions (something like cp * but *.bak). How can I do that (as I can
> read from cp' man or info page this is not possible)?

>From what I know, cp doesn't support this. However, you could do something 
like find . ! -name *.bak -exec cp \{\} /where/you/like/it \;

This should do what you want.

greetings,
  Johannes

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