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karkator
karkator

Reputation: 61

copying all the .tar and .tar.bz2 file systems from all the sub-directories into another directory

Imagine that i have lots of sub-directory in a sub-directory in a directory I wanted to copy all the .tar and .tar.bz2 extension files from all the sub-directories into another directory.

I used

$find /home/apple/mango -name *.tar -exec cp {} ./kk \;

but it copies only once from a sub directory and stops , it doesn't find files which are in other sub directories or go inside a sub directories and find them. I want to do it recursively

Upvotes: 0

Views: 114

Answers (1)

anubhava
anubhava

Reputation: 786289

You may use:

find /home/apple/mango -name '*.tar*' -execdir cp {} /full/path/to/kk \;

Note how name pattern is quoted to avoid shell expansion even before find command executes.

In the absence of quoting *.tar is expanded to some file.tar which is present in current directory and find stop right there because file.tar is not found in sub directories. By quoting glob pattern we make sure that find command gets literal pattern to search the sub directories.

Upvotes: 3

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