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How to move or copy files listed by ‘find’ command in unix?

I have a list of certain files that I see using the command below, but how can I copy those files listed into another folder, say ~/test?

In regards to @EricJablow — you are correct. But also if you run -exec with a +; at the end of the statement it will copy in a single batch and if you use \; it will run a cp command for each file found. Cheers!

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Adding to Eric Jablow’s answer, here is a possible solution (it worked for me — linux mint 14 /nadia)

find /path/to/search/ -type f -name "glob-to-find-files" | xargs cp -t /target/path/ 

It looks like xargs is more efficient than exec in situations where copying significant number of files.

Actually, you can process the find command output in a copy command in two ways:

If the find command’s output doesn’t contain any space, i.e if the filename doesn’t contain a space in it, then you can use:

Syntax: find  | xargs cp -t Example: find -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cp -t inner/ 

Syntax: find  -exec cp '<>' \; Example find -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp '<>' inner/ \; 

In the second example, the last part, the semi-colon is also considered as part of the find command, and should be escaped before pressing Enter . Otherwise you will get an error something like:

find: missing argument to `-exec' 

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Linux ‘find’ command: How to find and copy files

Linux find/copy FAQ: How can I use the find command to find many files and copy them all to a directory?

I ran into a situation this morning where I needed to use the Linux find command to (a) find all the MP3 files beneath my current directory and (b) copy them to another directory. In this case I didn’t want to do a cp -r command or tar command to preserve the directory structure; instead, I wanted all of the files to end up in the same directory (so I could easily import them into iTunes).

In short, here’s the find command I used to find and copy all of those files:

find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec cp <> /tmp/MusicFiles \;

If you’re familiar with the find command and have used the -exec option before, the only thing hard about this command is knowing where to put the curly braces and the \; in the command.

1. In this example, all the MP3 files beneath the current directory are copied into the target directory (/tmp/MusicFiles). Again, this isn’t a cp -r command; all of these files will end up in one folder.
2. As a result, if there are duplicate file names, some of the files will be lost.
3. If you don’t want to overwrite existing files, use the cp -n command, like this:

find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec cp -n <> /tmp/MusicFiles \;

The -n option of the cp command means “no clobber,” and you can also type that as cp —no-clobber on some systems, such as Linux. (The -n option appears to work on MacOS systems, but —no-clobber does not.) Be sure to test this command before using it on something important; I haven’t tested it yet, I just read the man page for the cp command.)

If you ever need to use the Linux find command to find a large collection of files and copy them to another location, I hope this has been helpful.

Another example: Find and move

Here’s another example of a “find and copy” command I just used, though in this case it was a “find and move” command. In this case I had a bunch of files (with unique names) in subdirectories, and used this command to copy them all to the current directory:

As before, this is a dangerous command, so be careful. With this command, if you have duplicate filenames, you will definitely lose data during the move operations.

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Find and copy files

If your intent is to copy the found files into /home/shantanu/tosend , you have the order of the arguments to cp reversed:

find /home/shantanu/processed/ -name '*2011*.xml' -exec cp "<>" /home/shantanu/tosend \; 

Please, note: the find command use <> as placeholder for matched file.

find -iname ‘*.mp3’ -mtime -1 -exec cp <> /home/my_path/ \; is there anything wrong with this command ? it’s not working

In Ubuntu 18 the curly braces also have to be put into single quotes: find -iname ‘*.mp3’ -mtime -1 -exec cp ‘<>‘ /home/my_path/ \;

i faced an issue something like this.

Actually, in two ways you can process find command output in copy command

1. If find command’s output doesn’t contain any space i.e if file name doesn’t contain space in it then you can use below mentioned command: Syntax: find | xargs cp -t Example: find -mtime -1 -type f | xargs cp -t inner/
2. But most of the time our production data files might contain space in it. So most of time below mentioned command is safer: Syntax: find -exec cp ‘<>‘ \; Example find -mtime -1 -type f -exec cp ‘<>‘ inner/ \;

In the second example, last part i.e semi-colon is also considered as part of find command, that should be escaped before press the enter button. Otherwise you will get an error something like this

find: missing argument to `-exec' 

In your case, copy command syntax is wrong in order to copy find file into /home/shantanu/tosend . The following command will work:

find /home/shantanu/processed/ -name '*2011*.xml' -exec cp <> /home/shantanu/tosend \; 

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How copy and rename files found in «find» function Linux?

I have a folder named /home/user/temps which has 487 folders. In each folder I have a file called thumb.png. I want to copy all files named thumb.png to a separate folder and rename them based on the folder they came from.

rename them, how? If you replace the directory delimiter with something — let’s say underline (_), you may get collisions with files, which already contain an underline. That’s true for every valid character, and beside / and \0, which are forbidden in filenames, there is no safe harbor — any character might produce a collision.

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for file in /home/user/temps/*/thumb.png; do new_file=$; cp "$file" "$"; done; 

the canonical wisdom, by the way, is that using find for this is a bad idea — simply using shell expansion is much more reliable. Also, this assumes bash , but I figure that’s a safe assumption 🙂

for clarity, I’ll break it down:

# shell-expansion to loop specified files for file in /home/user/temps/*/thumb.png; do # replace 'temps' with 'new_folder' in the path # '/home/temps/abc/thumb.png' becomes '/home/new_folder/abc/thumb.png' new_file=$; # drop '/thumb' from the path # '/home/new_folder/abc/thumb.png' becomes '/home/new_folder/abc.png' cp "$file" "$"; done; 

details on the $ construct can be found here.

the quotes in the cp line are important to handle spaces and newlines etc. in filenames.

@user: $ produces the value of VARIABLE but with the pattern replaces by the replacement text. Here the pattern is /thumb (the / needs to be escaped so that it doesn’t look like $ , which makes it a global replacement instead of a first-occurrence replacement) and the replacement text is empty.

You’re assuming that the 487 directories are directly under /home/user/temps , which is not clear from the question. If they aren’t, you need find or ** .

This solution «flattens» the files in sub- and subsubdirectories so they all sit in one big directory. The new file name reflects the original path. For example temps/dir/subdir/thumb.png will become newdir/temps_dir_subdir_thumb.png .

find temps/ -name "thumb.png" | while IFS= read -r f do cp -v "$f" "newdir/$" done 

can also be done in one line

find temps/ -name "thumb.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do cp -v "$f" "newdir/$"; done 

$ find temps/ -name "thumb.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do cp -v "$f" "newdir/$"; done `temps/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_thumb.png' `temps/dir3/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_dir3_thumb.png' `temps/dir3/dir31/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_dir3_dir31_thumb.png' `temps/dir3/dir32/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_dir3_dir32_thumb.png' `temps/dir1/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_dir1_thumb.png' `temps/dir2/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_dir2_thumb.png' `temps/dir2/dir21/thumb.png' -> `newdir/temps_dir2_dir21_thumb.png' 

You must execute the command from the parent directory of temps . Also newdir must exists and must be a sibling directory of temps . These can deviate but then you must be really carefull how to write the command.

If you are unsure then prepend cp with echo to see what is going to be executed.

find temps/ -name "thumb.png" | while IFS= read -r f; do echo cp -v "$f" "newdir/$"; done 

If you are really sure and don’t the need the one line per copy anymore then drop the -v from cp .

This works using parameter expansion: $ . It takes the content of the variable f (which contains the filename with path) and replaces every occurence of / with _ .

Note that this is a dumb text search and replace. In some rare cases two distinct file might end up to the same name. If that happens one of the files will overwrite the other.

For example two files temps/dir/thumb.png and temps/dir_thumb.png . Both files will be renamed to temps_dir_thumb.png . So one file will be lost. Which file will be lost is dependent on the order of how find found them on disk.

Also note: obligatory pedantic warning: if your filenames contain newlines this command will break horribly.

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