Find and copy these files to particular directory

Shell Programming and Scripting
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RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.4

I have some files with the extension

.cdp

in several directories in various mountpoints(filesystems) . I would like to find and copy all these files into a single directory

/u03/diagnore/data

.

How can I do this ?

2

Try

find /source_path/ -name '*.cdp' -exec cp {} /Destination_path/ \;
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Thank you Pamu. What is the significance of curly braces
{}in this command and why is it placed between cp and the target directory ?

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find ... | pax -rw destination

If filename collisions are possible, with pax you can use -k to always keep the existing file, or -u to update (overwrite when the existing destination file is older).

If you need a fancier way to deal with collisions, then you need to provide more info.

Regards,
Alister

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Type man find at your prompt and read the section which discusses -exec .

Regards,
Alister

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