Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 12:37:12 -0600 From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@fivesight.com> To: "Jon Larssen" <jonlarssen@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find(1) usage Message-ID: <15497.1240.26783.677851@apu.five.sight> In-Reply-To: <F169kAvjUqMUrYawLLe00013a42@hotmail.com> References: <F169kAvjUqMUrYawLLe00013a42@hotmail.com>
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> I have a backup directory of some important system files, for
> instance, backup/etc/master.passwd, backup/etc/groups, etc. Now, if
> I'm standing just on backup's parent, I can find the files I need to
> backup, like:
>
> find backup/ -name "*" ! -type d -print
>
> and the result would be
>
> backup/etc/master.passwd
> backup/etc/groups
> etc.
>
> Now, I'd like to use the -exec expression of find(1) to obtain the
> following (sample) command:
>
> cp -p /etc/master.passwd backup/etc/master.passwd
In a Bourne shell clone, you can do
$ find backup/ [options] -print |
while read f; do
cp -p `echo "$f" | sed s,^backup,,` "$f"
done
Good luck,
Lucas
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