use of cp command with wild card

[Gopal Ghosh]

dear all,
how to search for a group of files using wildcard and copy the result
content and redirecting it to a dir
thanks
regards

[Roger Millington]

man find
man cp

Gopal Ghosh wrote:
> dear all,
> how to search for a group of files using wildcard and copy the result
> content and redirecting it to a dir
> thanks
> regards
>
> Fedora-laptop-list mailing list
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> http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-laptop-list

[Kae Verens]

Roger Millington wrote:
> man find
> man cp

or "rtfm" in otherwords - not nice, Roger...
> Gopal Ghosh wrote:
> > dear all,
> > how to search for a group of files using wildcard and copy the result
> > content and redirecting it to a dir

you do not always need to use 'find'. You can use cp with globbing 
(search for "file globbing")

for instance:
"cp *test.txt ../test" will copy newtest.txt and oldtest.txt to ../test
"cp test[0-9].txt ../test" will copy test0.txt and test1.txt to ../test 
but will not copy testA.txt

kae

[Roger Millington]

Kae Verens wrote:
> Roger Millington wrote:
> > man find
> > man cp
>
> or "rtfm" in otherwords - not nice, Roger...

I did not use "rtfm" because the questions being asked by Bopal seemed
to me to indicate that he does not know that a manual exists.

You can keep summarising the man pages for Bopal if you like but it
would seem more valuable to show him how to get more complete answers by
using 'man'. Your call.

[Kae Verens]

Roger Millington wrote:
> > or "rtfm" in otherwords - not nice, Roger...
>
> I did not use "rtfm" because the questions being asked by Bopal seemed
> to me to indicate that he does not know that a manual exists.
>
> You can keep summarising the man pages for Bopal if you like but it
> would seem more valuable to show him how to get more complete answers by
> using 'man'. Your call.

fair enough.

I made the assumption (and I admit it was an assumption) that Gopal had 
read the man pages and just needed further examples or for a paraphrased 
explanation.

I apologise for the over-reaction.

kae

wrong list? Was: use of cp command with wild card

[Jarosław Górny]

Hi,
Gopal, I don't want to offend You, but I think You should ask such a questions 
on "fedora-list" instead of "fedora-laptop-list".
As summary on list index says:

"Fedora-laptop-list  -> Laptop related things"

"fedora-list  -> Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using 
Fedora."

Topics You are asking (use of cp, chmod, selinux, shell) are NOT laptop 
specific.

regards,