Copy Files Found By Find

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To copy the files found by the find command to somewhere else, use this command syntax;

find starting-directory -iname search-expression -exec cp {} destination-directory \;

Usage Examples

find /var/tmp -iname *.log -exec cp {} /logs \;

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