Copying single file to multiple locations

Ashiro · 12-05-2008, 03:22 AM

I've hunted all over for this but only find similar yet unworkable solutions.

I have a file: favicon.ico that I want to copy into the location of all the other favicon.ico files in the /var/www directory tree.

There's over 150 sites in there so I want to do this without resorting to manually copying to each one.

I thought I could do a find then exec but hat doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

vladmihaisima · 12-05-2008, 03:59 AM

This works for me:

Code:

find /var/www -name favicon.ico -exec cp /path/to/favicon.ico \{\} \;

billymayday · 12-05-2008, 04:22 AM

What's the meaning of \{\} as opposed to {}?

Just out of interest.

vladmihaisima · 12-05-2008, 05:13 AM

I think I had problems with some shell that 'interpreted' the '{'. I might be wrong though, don't remember exactly

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@Ashiro: this means that it might work as:

Code:

find /var/www -name favicon.ico -exec cp /path/to/favicon.ico {} \;

billymayday · 12-05-2008, 05:50 AM

I haven't tried anything on this, but it occurred to me that you may need to add "-f" to "cp", since you want to force replacement.

vladmihaisima, thanks for the clarification.