Hello I’m having problems with what I’m sure should be a simple problem. I’m new to scripting so please be gentle.

I have this bit of script:

find / \( -iname "*.${file1}" -o -iname "*.${file2}" -o -iname "*.${file3}" -o -iname "*.${file4}" -o -iname "*.${file5}" -o -iname "*.${file6}" -o -iname "*.${file7}" -o -iname "*.${file8}" -o -iname "*.${file9}" -o -iname "*.${file10}" \) -exec cp {} /home/knoppix/files/ \;

Basically it is supposed to search the computer for certain file types and copy them to /home/knoppix/files/ The problem I have is that it finds the files and copies them but they all appear to be zero in size. Can anybody tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thanks

Mark

You may have to add the -t argument to cp: -exec cp -t {} /home/knoppix/files/ \;