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/ 3 Years ago, wed, may 5, 2021, 9:19:01
I am trying to learn about the find command. I would like to understand the meaning of this warning:
ankit@battlestar:/home/mount_150/studies$ find -iname "*.pdf" -exec cp -ar {} lcommands/ ;
cp: `./lcommands/june.pdf' and `lcommands/june.pdf' are the same file
cp: `./lcommands/cde.pdf' and `lcommands/cde.pdf' are the same file
cp: `./lcommands/abc.pdf' and `lcommands/abc.pdf' are the same file
ankit@battlestar:/home/mount_150/studies$ ls -l lcommands/
You can see here the procedure I followed and the directory structure:
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