Easily copy all .deb files in folder & subfolder via cli?

[mips]

Hi,

I need to copy all *.deb files found in /media/Ubuntu 11.10 amd64/pool/main to /var/cache/apt.

Problem is they are spread across a gazillion sub folders inside 'main'.

Is there an easy way to do this via cli? Can someone provide me with the commandline syntax please?

Why? I'm doing a custom install of 11.10 starting with a base (cli only) install and then I want to build on that but I have limited bandwidth so would prefer to copy all the deb files from the cd into the apt cache so any files that are local will install faster and save me some bandwidth.

[nerdopolis]

I think its


find -path "/media/Ubuntu 11.10 amd64/pool/main" -name "*.deb" | while read FILE
do
cp "$FILE" "/var/cache/apt"
done

[mips]

Thanks, tried that but it did nothing.

[matt_symes]

Hi


sudo bash -c "find /media/Ubuntu\ 11.10\ amd64/pool/main -name *.deb -exec cp {} /var/cache/apt \;"Here is a 1 liner.

Kind regards

[ice60]

find "/media/Ubuntu 11.10 amd64/pool/main" -type f -name '*.deb' -exec cp -i {} "/var/cache/apt" \;

i think that is correct. maybe wait for someone to say it's correct first though because i'm not sure!

[mips]

Hi


sudo bash -c "find /media/Ubuntu\ 11.10\ amd64/pool/main -name *.deb -exec cp {} /var/cache/apt \;"Here is a 1 liner.

Kind regards

Thanks a million, works brilliantly!



find "/media/Ubuntu 11.10 amd64/pool/main" -type f -name '*.deb' -exec cp -i {} "/var/cache/apt" \;

i think that is correct. maybe wait for someone to say it's correct first though because i'm not sure!

Thanks, looks the same as the above.

[Martin Marshalek]

EDIT: Sorry, just re-read your post.

[mips]

Thanks again, this info just saved my bacon one more time ;)

[blithen]

The thread has been solved but had to chime me 2 cents in.
This is why I LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE the terminal...so powerful.

[mips]

And I came back looking for it again :biggrin:

[graabein]

The terminal is where you execute little programs that are all created to solve some small task, and they're constructed to take input stream and create output stream, while printing info to the screen, usually. So you just string em together and whoopdedo.