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kavi · #1 (**permalink**) 09-18-2005, 12:48 AM

I have Cd which has many folders & subfolders(which have more subfolder

in which there are different files like .spc, .img, .txt etc. Now i want to copy all the .txt files from these folders, subfolder, sub-subfolders. simply put- i want all the .txt files from the CD ROM.

monk · #2 (**permalink**) 09-18-2005, 01:22 AM

Try following small shell script

Code:

a=$(find /mnt/cdrom -name "*.txt")
for i in $a
do
cp $i /tmp
done

Replace /mnt/cdrom with your cdrom mount point, /tmp with actual location where you wanna put all *.txt file

charvi · #3 (**permalink**) 09-18-2005, 01:37 AM

How abt following one line code?

Code:

find /cdrom -name "*.txt" | xargs -i cp -v {} /home/charvi

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