copy problem

[highs...@yahoo.de]

Thank You for help.

Can I ask for more help?

How can I do this with the limit

copy all Textfiles a*.txt   created   20 June 2,014   to  23 July 2,015?

Thank You again.

Sophie



Am 26.01.21 um 15:02 schrieb Jeremiah Bess:
Not quite. Assuming you want to get all the a*.txt files recursively inside
the daten directory, this is the correct syntax:

cp -r date/a*txt backup

Jeremiah Bess


On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 1:32 AM 'highs...@yahoo.de' via Linux Users Group
<linuxus...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

cp -r a*.txt daten backup

hello
does this copy all files from hd to a new directory?

regards
Sophie

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[frank]

> copy all Textfiles a*.txt   created   20 June 2,014   to  23 July 2,015?

By using the find command as per this post

touch --date "2014-06-20" /tmp/start

touch --date "2015-07-23" /tmp/end

find [source_dir] -type f -name "a*.txt" -newer /tmp/start -not -newer /tmp/end -exec cp -p {} [target_dir];

HINT: Before running find with exec I always prefix command with "echo" as in:

find [source_dir] -type f -name "a*.txt" -newer /tmp/start -not -newer /tmp/end -exec echo cp -p {} [target_dir];