Linux; CP command with find?

[TiziteLayinLow]

Im a little rusty with linux but can anyone help me find the command to copy all files with extension .doc to a location?

thanks

 

[skene]

cp location/of/files/*.doc destination/location/

or used . as the destination if you're in the directory you want them to be in.

 

[Nothinman]

find /path/to/search -name '*.doc' -exec cp -v "{}" /destination/path

You may have to play with it a bit if the filenames have spaces in them, I'm not sure if the quotes around {} will work well or not.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
find /path/to/search -name '*.doc' -exec cp -v "{}" /destination/path

You may have to play with it a bit if the filenames have spaces in them, I'm not sure if the quotes around {} will work well or not.

You also have to end that statement with \;

 

[Nothinman]

er yea

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
er yea

I forget it almost everytime I do an -exec. 😛