Question

I’m running the following line from the apache logs directory to move older (previously zipped) logs to a storage location:

/usr/local/apache2.2/logs$ find . -name '*.gz' -exec cp {} /home/itadmin/temp4{} \;

The result is slightly off due to the ‘.’ included in the returned file path:

cp: cannot create regular file `/home/itadmin/temp4./default/error/error.1315029600.gz': No such file or directory

Is there a simple way to eliminate the ‘.’ from the file path while still utilizing the above command as closely as possible to the way it’s written now?

Answer 1

You can copy all files in one invocation of cp like this:

$ find . -name '*.gz' -exec cp --target-directory=/home/itadmin/temp4 {} +

Or just add a slash to your original command:

/usr/local/apache2.2/logs$ find . -name '*.gz' -exec cp {} /home/itadmin/temp4/{} \;