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Bash - Copy all .jar files to current directory from subfolders

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I have folder named datahub and it has 15 folders and more than 20 subfolder which holds .jar files. I wanted to find all .jar files from subfolders and copy back to my current directory.

I am referring Bash - create zip by finding files but this is copying subfolders as well, but i wanted to copy only .jar's to my current directory or to create one directory and copy to it.

Thanks in Advance for your help
Venkat

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answered 2 Years ago nerta · Accepted Answer

Open Terminal and navigate to your source directory.

find ./ -name "*.jar" -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t "Destination"

This only works if the file names are unique and are not already inside the Destination folder.