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Enric Agud Pique
Enric Agud Pique

Reputation: 1105

cp some files from folder to folder

I try to copy some files from a folder to another. I want to copy all them except some that begins with the same pattern, quality*.csv. I use the next code but it doesn't run.

#!/bin/bash 

dir=/home/meteo/data 
dir1=/home/meteo/data2
cd $dir
find . ! -name qualitat*.csv cp $dir1

what is wrong? thks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 80

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 784968

You need to use -exec option in find:

find . -type f ! -name "qualitat*.csv" -exec cp '{}' "$dir1" \;

OR using xargs:

find . -type f ! -name "qualitat*.csv" -print0 | xargs -0 cp {} "$dir1"

Upvotes: 1

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