Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 at 5:56pm, Kai wrote
>> $ tar -cvf music.tar `find ../ -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.ogg'` | tar
>> -xvf music.tar
>
>
> Pipes direct the next command to read from stdin, but the '-f' flag to
> 'tar c' send its output to the named file, not stdout. A better form of
> the above command would be:
>
> tar cvO `find ../ -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.ogg'` | tar xf -
>
> The 'O' in the first tar sends its output to stdout, and the 'f -' in
> the 2nd tells tar to read from stdin.
>
> *However*, that will keep the directory structure. Why not just use cp?
>
> find ../ -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.ogg' -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp \{} .
>
Thank you for explaining, cp would be find, but I don't understand your
arguments after the pipe.
Please explain..
I have tried to use find ....... -exec cp {}\; but cant get anything
working using the cp in this type of command.