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TA-t3	2008-03-12 , 12:40
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Originally Posted by saklotz

I am trying to write a simple file copy command in xterm [find /./media/usb/sda1/dcim -name '*.JPG' | cpio -p /./media/mmc2/images]

What with simply:

Code:

find /media/usb/sda1/dcim -name "*.JPG" -exec cp -p {} /media/mmc2/images/. \;

Or using tar:

Code:

cd media/usb/sda1/dcim  (or into whatever subdir holds the actual ".JPG" files)
tar cf - *.JPG | (cd /media/mmc2/images && tar xvf -)

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Last edited by TA-t3; 2008-03-12 at 12:42.