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Using the find command with a pipe to copy

Hi

I want to be able to use the 'find' command to look for files containing a particular pattern (ignoring case) in their filenames ,then copy these to another directory.

I have not been able to get this to work. Is this possible?

Regards

Yes it should be something like this:

Code:

find / -name *baa* -exec "cp {} /home/baa/"

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zmyrgel

Yes it should be something like this:

Code:

find / -name *baa* -exec "cp {} /home/baa/"

To ignore the case, you'd want -iname, not -name. You also need to enclose the *baa* in quotes, otherwise the shell parses it rather than letting find expand the asterisks. The find command needs to be finished with \; at the end too, and finally, the quotes need to go around the {}, not the whole cp command:

Code:

find / -iname "*baa*" -exec cp "{}" /home/baa/ \;

I think ;)

Thanks

pwc101 - works like a dream, thanks for the quick replies

very much appreciated