How do I recursively copy a file into many subdirectories?

[Paul Howarth]

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.