复制与不同文件夹中的名称匹配的文件

Question

I am using

find ../../ -type f -name <filename>*.PDF -print0 | xargs -0 cp --target-directory=Directory name with path>;

but it is copy only one file. It doesn't copy all files which is having same name. I need number of files to be searched and copied which is having same name but it it created on different date and different folder. how to solve this issue. I have already created lot's more I am facing the problem in this regard.

Answer 1

This will give you the duplicate files. Once you have the name, you can find them and delete them using your script:

for i in `find .|grep pom.xml`; do 
   basename $i;
done |sort|uniq -c|sort -n|cut -b9-

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