Re: find and cp in one command...

"Robert Hicks" <sigzero@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

find ./ -name "*" -mtime -1

I need to pipe that to cp to move it to /tmp/20060810LK78

mv `find . -name "*" -mtime -1` /tmp/20060810LK78

If this gives you "command line too long", then

find . -name "*" -mtime -1 | xargs -i mv {} /tmp/20060810LK78

Cheers,
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