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Find all files of a type and copy them elsewhere while keeping intact their full directory structure using find and cpio

.flac is the filetype. /Volumes/Music/FLAC is the destination. Show Sample Output
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```
#Any folders containing .flac files will be copied to the destination.

/Volumes/Music/FLAC/Music $ ls

Albert King The Best of Albert King(flac)/
Cloud Kicker/
St Germain/
Astor Piazzolla(flac)/
```
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find . -iname "*.flac" | cpio -pdm /Volumes/Music/FLAC

sammcj · 2011-08-02 08:25:21 71
Clone current directory into /destination verbosely

Copy every file from current directory to destination preserving modification time.
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find . | cpio -pumdv /destination

nutria · 2009-04-28 22:08:30 8
Create POSIX tar archive

tar(1) and cpio(1) are not fully platform agnostic, although their file formats are specified in POSIX.1-2001. As such, GNU tar(1) might not be able to extract a BSD tar(1) archive, and ivce versa. pax(1) is defined in POSIX.1-2001. To extract an archive: pax -rf archive.tar
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pax -wf archive.tar /path

atoponce · 2020-03-06 13:56:46 112
Clone /

Clone linux installation.
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find . -path ./mnt -prune -o -path ./lost+found -prune -o -path ./sys -prune -o -path ./proc -prune -o -print | cpio -pumd /destination && mkdir /destination/mnt/ && mkdir /destination/proc && mkdir /destination/sys

nutria · 2009-04-28 22:14:45 7
Copy uncommitted changes from remote git repository

Copy changed files from remote git repository, _including binary ones_, staged and unstaged alike. Note that this command doesn't handle deleted files properly.
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ssh HOST '(cd REPO_DIR && git diff --name-only HEAD | cpio -o -Hnewc --quiet)' | cpio -iduv --quiet -Hnewc

ivan4th · 2014-02-01 18:40:31 8

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how to find the active X (X11/xorg) username and DISPLAY variable

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Find out the last times your system was rebooted (for the duration of wtmp).

Combine two mp3's or more into 1 long mp3

This just combines multiple mp3's into one mp3 file. Basically it is a easy join for mp3's

Clone IDE Hard Disk

This command clone the first partition of the primary master IDE drive to the second partition of the primary slave IDE drive (!!! back up all data before trying anything like this !!!)

read manpage of a unix command as pdf in preview (Os X)

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Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

Friday is the 5th day of the week, monday is the 1st. Output may be affected by locale.

Schedule a script or command in x num hours, silently run in the background even if logged out

doesn't require "at", change the "2h" to whatever you want... (deafult unit for sleep is seconds)

exclude a column with cut

Show all columns except 5th. This might help you save some typing if you are trying to exclude some columns from the output.

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