Copy files from find command output

Question

i am using below command to enlist the direcoties with name containing linuxS_x86 .

" find src/ -type d -name 'linuxS_x86' "

it is giving correct output also. Now i want to copy the files from the all the directories enlisted with above command .

Please help me out ..?

Answer 1

use find with -exec

find src/ -type d -name 'linuxS_x86' -exec cp -rf {} <some destination> \;

{} is the placeholder to pass a single file name to -exec called command, and \; is to finish -exec.

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or else you could use ls instead of find. Then pass found files to xargs to do cp command.

ls linuxS_x86/* | xargs -n 1 -I{} cp {} ./bbb