I have the following code and would like to copy all the found files within the if then loop.

I can pipe it to a file then run a smbclient get on the file listing but there must be a better way to do this.

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You don't say where you want to copy the matching files. So you'll need to modify the commands as necessary:

You can use the -exec option with find. Something like:
That command will invoke cp once for every matching file found. If you don't want that overhead, you could do something like this:

In this case, you execute cp only once, but it forces your script to copy all the matching files to a single directory. Also keep in mind that if you have a LOT of matching files, the command may exceed the maximum length--causing the cp command to fail.

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Thanks for the response.

I would like to copy the files to my linux home directory (where I am running the script from) and put the 'found' files into seperate directory's named $IP something like this:

I dot not expect too many hits, max about 10 for what I am trying to achieve so the cp would work.

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That won't do what you're hoping it will do.

When you use the -exec option with the find command, the normal output from find is suppressed. The output is replaced by the output of the executed command. So your found.txt file will be empty.

You can fix that with another option to find:

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Thanks. The -print -exec was exactly what I needed. I learn something new whenever I visit this place.

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