[Tfug] Need help with a complicated command line copy...

[Jim March]

Brian, that last looks very usable.  One question though: how do I
know it's keeping only the newest version of the file?

Jim

On 6/27/07, Brian Zaugg <brian.zaugg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Imagining that your friend's disk is mounted to /mnt/friend and you
> are copying to /dest, something like this should work:
>
> find /mnt/friend \(-name *.pdf -o -name *.xls -o -name *.doc\) -exec
> cp \{\} /dest\ \;
>
> The -exec syntax can be finicky depending on the platform, so this
> might be easier:
>
> find /mnt/friend \(-name *.pdf -o -name *.xls -o -name *.doc\) -print
> | xargs -i cp '{}' /dest
>
> Also, make sure and read the manpages for find and xargs first.
>
> -Brian
>
> On 6/27/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I have a complicated problem.
> >
> > I have a stack of old hard disks with data a friend wants extracted.
> > There are a lot of duplicates, and of course they're scattered across
> > multiple subdirectories.
> >
> > The file types are as you'd expect: .pdf, .doc, .xls, etc.
> >
> > At the DOS command line I'd have trouble with this: I could use XCOPY
> > to move the files (based on extension) from disk to disk including
> > subdirectories, but In this case I don't WANT the target-location
> > files to be in subdirectories.  Instead, as I pile the files into the
> > target location I want to keep them all in one, and as new ones try
> > and come in retain the one with the latest datestamp.
> >
> > I'm using standard Ubuntu Feisty so I figure there has to be a way to
> > skin this cat at the command line, probably with standard tools but,
> > maybe with some add-in package?  Any tips would be welcome :).
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Jim
> >
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> -Brian
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