How to search mateched file names in a big directory?

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I am learning AWK and new to it. Here is my question:

I have a very big directory that looks like directory tree. My purpose is to find out one kind of matched file, for example, only *.awk file in all subdirectories and store them in a new created directory call new_awk.

I don't know how to do. Appreciate any help. Thanks.

 

[olded]

There's a lot of ways of solving this one, but probably the simplest is using find. Do something like this:

for i in `find . -name "*.awk" -print`
do
cp $i new_awk
done

The above copies all files ending in awk from the current directory. Do a man find for other options.

Regards,

Ed
Schaefer

 

[vgersh99]

no need for a "fo r" loop.

"man find" and pay attention to "-exec" option

vlad

 

[aigles]

find . -name '*.awk' -exec cp {} new_awk \;
Jean Pierre.

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi all,

Thanks alot for your help. It works well under one directory. I wanted it to search all subdirectories. One more example: suppose under a root directory called AWK there are 10 levels of subdirectories all have *.awk files. I don't know how to shift subdirectories with this script.

Thanks again.

 

[Guest_imported]

I think I made a mistake. It works the way I wanted . Thanks

 

[vgersh99]

"find" is recursive in nature

vlad