Re: Recursive copies of selected files
On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 06:28:13AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:09:22PM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> > > I needed to copy a bunch of files from a directory tree -- but only
> > > selected files (say all regular files that end in .foo). I want the
> > > destination tree to be created. find(1) is what I find most useful
> > > for specifying what files to match the files I want to move -- but I
> > > can't seem to get a good xargs command to get the files in the
> > > destination (ie create the dir if doesn't exist and copy the file).
>
> > It seems the "standard" way to do this is tar in a pipe.
> >
> > find . | tar -F. -c -f- | (cd ../new && tar -xf -)
>
> I think you want -T not -F:
>
> find -name \*.foo | tar -T- -cf- | (cd newdir && tar -xf-)
Why not just
find -name \*.foo | cpio -pmd newdir
?
Frank
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