[ILUG] Help!

[Kenn Humborg]

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I have a bit of a problem and I was wondering if anyone out there 
> would be able to help. 
> Basically, I wasn't to copy a whole bunch of files from a whole 
> bunch of directories into 
> one final directory. Essentially I have about 1000 folders, each 
> of which contains 100 
> files (50 each of two file types *.scf and *.ab1) which I am 
> endeavouring to move to another 
> folder. obviously using
> cp ./*/*.scf ./final_folder 
> doesn't work as there are two many arguments. I've tried a 
> variety of xargs commands 
> too but have had no success so far. If anyone has any suggestions 

   find . -name \*.scf -o -name \*.ab1 | xargs cp --target ./final_folder

cp's --target-directory option was added to make it xargs-friendly.

Later,
Kenn