复制大量文件xargs

Question

I'm trying to copy large amount of file from one directory to another using xargs command. But this one does not seems to work right.

# echo * |xargs cp -r /directry/destination

what I am doing wrong?

Here is what it returns:

cp: target `file name' is not a directory

Answer 1

find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec cp -r -t /directry/destination {} ';'

例

Answer 2

by default cp interprets the LAST argument as the target directory when there is more than one source directlry, but the way you have it, you have cp -r target source1 source2 source3... . So it is going to think you intend to copy things to the last source instead of the target. If you are using gnu coreutils, you should have a -t or --target-directory switch so you can specify which directory you intend to use as the destination, so you could use echo * | xargs cp -r --target-directory /directory/destination echo * | xargs cp -r --target-directory /directory/destination