Copy files from subdir

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hey,

How can I copy files from subdirectories without copy the subdir
and copy it to a higher dir

For example:

/home/test/subdir/file1

copy file1 to /home or another dir

thanx

2

unless I'm missing something

cp /home/test/subdir/file1 /home

will do what you want

3 
cp /home/test/subdir/* /home/

find /home/test/subdir -type f -prune -exec cp {} /home/ \;
4

I mean for different files starting with file*

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for example

/home/user/test1/subdir1/file1
/home/user/test2/subdir2/file2

I want to copy file1 & 2

when I'm in /home/user/ and copy them in home/user/lala

5 
cp /home/user/test1/subdir1/file1 /home/user/test2/subdir2/file2 ./lala/

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Less restrictive :

cp /home/user/test?/subdir?/file? ./lala/
6

but i haven't always subdirs :stuck_out_tongue:

7

I am afraid, we need more info about how does your tree structure look like and which files you are willing to move or not.

8

ok,

/home/user/dir1/subdir1/file1
/homer/user/dir2/file2
/home/user/file3
copy these files to /home/user/lala

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ok,

/home/user/dir1/subdir1/file1
/home/user/dir1/subdir2/file2
home/user/dir2/subdir35/file3
home/user/file45

copy these files 'starting with file' to home/user/lala

9 
ksh
cd /home/user
find /home/user -type f -name "file*" | while read f
do
echo cp $f /user/lala/${f##*/}
done

Try this, if it displays what you expect, then remove the "echo" so the "cp" command will apply for real

10

The echo is fine
but when i try to copy it gives me an error:

He says that he can't make the normal file because it doesn't exists
But it does ...

11

You mean when you run the following :

ksh
cd /home/user
find /home/user -type f -name "file*" | while read f do
cp $f /user/lala/${f##*/}
done

You get some error message ?
could you please copy/paste the message you get ?

Could you please also paste the result you get when running the following 2 commands :

find /home/user -type f -name "file*" -ls

ls -ld /user/lala
12

It's ok i gave the wrong destination directory sorry!
It works now thanks