Re: recursively copy selective files

From: Douglas O'Neal <oneal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:00:24 -0500

techietone wrote:

Hi All,

How can we copy certain type of files, recursively into another
directory?

I have tried using tar -cf - `find . -name "STRING*.*"` | ( cd
DESTINITION_DIR && tar xBf - ) but I am getting a error:
bash: /bin/tar: Argument list too long

find . -name 'STRING*' | cpio -pdmv DESTINATION_DIR
.

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