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copy specific files and count them - not as easy as it seems!

Hi all: Here’s my dilemma: to identify files of a specific type, copy them to a new location while preserving the original file attributes (date, time, full path, etc), and at the same time capture the count of the num…



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copy specific files and count them - not as easy as it seems!

Hi all: Here’s my dilemma: to identify files of a specific type, copy them to a new location while preserving the original file attributes (date, time, full path, etc), and at the same time capture the count of the num…

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      Hi all: Here's my dilemma: to identify files of a specific type, copy them to a new location while preserving the original file attributes (date, time, full path, etc), and at the same time capture the count of the number of files identified as a variable for later reporting. Here's where I am so far: find . -type f -iname '*.xls*' | tee wc -l | cpio -dumpv /destination_path I know that to capture the output of wc -l as a variable, I need to enclose the command in backticks: xlscnt=`find ....

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