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How to copy all .sol files in a system to a specific folder

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I want to copy all the files that I have in the system with extension sol to the specific folder
can you please help me.
I tried sudo cp / *.sol ~/SOL/
but it doesn't work

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I tried to follow the first answer, and that's what I got:

root@johntheripper-PORTEGE-Z835:~# find / -name *.sol | wc -l

61

root@johntheripper-PORTEGE-Z835:~# find / -type f -name '*.sol' -exec cp {} ~/SOL ;

...

...

...

root@johntheripper-PORTEGE-Z835:~# find ~/SOL -name *.sol | wc -l

26

As you can see 26 out of 61 file was copied, please help me to copy the rest.

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answered 1 Year ago edgehogight · Accepted Answer

There's a bash script to copy files with specific extension in this link.

There's also an answer on StackOverflow, I haven't tested it yet, but here it is:

find / -type f -name '*.sol' -exec cp '{}' ~/SOL ;

EDIT: As phoibos suggested, I changed the answer adding '' in the code.