Recursive copying...

pantera975 · 05-05-2010, 09:08 AM

Does anyone know of a way I can recursively copy 1 file into multiple directories? I have an index.html file that needs to be copied to every folder inside my /var/www/html directory. These directories can change in the future when people add new folders and I just want a cron job that runs daily and checks for new folders in /var/www/html and if it finds one, copy index.html to it.

pixellany · 05-05-2010, 09:11 AM

I would use "find" with the "-exec" option

pantera975 · 05-05-2010, 09:54 AM

Thanks alot! I never knew about "-exec". I got it pretty quick using..

find . -type d -exec cp index.php {} \;

pixellany · 05-05-2010, 11:41 AM

I have just given you your first "thank you"---simply for taking the hint and running with it. You have no idea how rare this is..