I have a few different partitions, all mounted. Some of them are windows, some of them are linux.

I'm using mandrake linux community 10.1 and would like to use one command or a small shell script to copy all true type fonts (ttf or TTF) files found with the locate command into a single directory.

How can I pipe the output of a locate command to the cp command? Something like:

locate -i ttf > ttflist
[for every line in ttflist]
cp line /my/desired/font/path/
[rof]

I'm not really familiar with shell scripts, and I AM learning them, but this seams like there should be a quick solution out there that I can just implement now.

All you have to change is your path:

locate -i ttf | xargs -iLINE cp LINE /my/desired/font/path/

See "man xargs" for details.

alternatively:
(those are backticks, not commas)

thank you!

backticks. That's what I was missing.

The xargs command is a new one for me, as well.