Roger Millington wrote:
man find
man cp
or "rtfm" in otherwords - not nice, Roger...
Gopal Ghosh wrote:
> dear all,
> how to search for a group of files using wildcard and copy the result
> content and redirecting it to a dir
>
you do not always need to use 'find'. You can use cp with globbing
(search for "file globbing")
for instance:
"cp *test.txt ../test" will copy newtest.txt and oldtest.txt to ../test
"cp test[0-9].txt ../test" will copy test0.txt and test1.txt to ../test
but will not copy testA.txt
kae