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Question by k0300983
Submitted on 12/3/2003
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I am using a Bash shell, Trying to copy all found readme.txt file in the system to a single ./directory Can some body say how to do that in a single command line?

Answer by Evan "JabberWokky" E.
Submitted on 5/24/2004
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Assuming you have the (very common) find-utils, you can simply: cp $( locate readme.txt \|grep -i '/readme.txt$' ) ./directory The -i matches ReadMe.txt README.TXT readme.txt and all other variants. This will fail if the directory contains spaces. Fixing that is an excercise left to the reader. (Hint: use a for loop or man find and read the exec flag).

Answer by Knight of St John of the Cross
Submitted on 10/8/2006
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Can you please first define a naming scheme for the readmes when they are dumped in that one directory? Perfectly sensible naming schemes exist but copying 1000 files to ./directory/readme.txt is silly. What do you want ./directory/readme.txt to contain? The concatenation of all those files?

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