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Sigkill(9)

08-22-2005 03:00 PM

cp files from grep results

How can I use cp with the results from the following:

grep -E '[Ww][Oo][Rr][Dd]' MyFiles_tif/textversion/*

apeekaboo

08-22-2005 03:08 PM

Try something like

Code:

cp $(grep -El '[Ww][Oo][Rr][Dd]' MyFiles_tif/textversion/*) /destination/

Sigkill(9)

08-22-2005 03:17 PM

Worked perfectly.

Thank you.

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