How do I recursively copy a file into many subdirectories?
Gilbert Sebenste
sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu
Fri Apr 7 19:24:57 UTC 2006
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 13:40 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am trying to copy a file called ".something" from a
>> /dir1/dir2 directory into /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/dir5/dir6/dir7...etc.
>> That is, each sub-directory must have a copy of this file. I have tried:
>>
>> cp -r .something /dir1/*
>>
>> But that didn't do it. Thoughts?
>
> find /dir1 -type d -exec cp .something {} \;
>
> Paul.
That did the trick. Thanks!
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