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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Subject: Re: org back up
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:41:35 +0300
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Sanjib Sikder [2012-10-17 23:55:12 +0530] wrote:

> #!/bin/bash
>
> mkdir -p /home/USERNAME/org/backup && \
> find $HOME -type f -name '*\.org' ! -path "/home/USERNAME/org/backup/*" \
>     -exec cp -t /home/USERNAME/org/backup/ \{\} \;

How about this:


#!/bin/sh

target=$HOME/org/backup
mkdir -p "$target" && \
	find "$HOME" -type f -name '*.org' ! -path "$target/*" \
	-exec cp -t "$target" {} +