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From: ujjwal on 8 Apr 2008 06:27
Hi,
i am trying to copy all the header files from the different folders of
a package and copying them to one single location by find command but
i am unable to find and copy all the files. anybody please help me
out.
find . -name *.h gives the file names but how to copy all the files
to one location?
Thnx in advance
Ujjwal
From: pk on 8 Apr 2008 06:52
ujjwal wrote:

> find . -name *.h gives the file names but how to copy all the files
> to one location?

find . -type f -name '*.h' -exec cp '{}' /new/location \;

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nonstandard features. I try to mention when something is nonstandard (if
I'm aware of that), but I may miss something. Corrections are welcome.
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