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Re: copy many files filtering extensions



On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:10:10PM +0100, 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)?
> Thanks
> Mat

Depends on your shell (which globs * before passing it to cp).  zsh (of
course:) can do this simply:

$ cp *~*.bak /blah/

-rob

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