Re: [SLUG] find -exec cp {} current-directory.messages

[Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
>Is there a way of telling find to copy a file in the directory where it
>finds it?
>
>I'm trying to run   find . -name files.bbs -exec cp {} .messages \;
>but this just copies each files.bbs into .message in the directory where
>the command is run, rather than the directories where each files.bbs
>exists

find . -name 'files.bbs' -exec cp {} `dirname {}`/.messages \;

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jamesw

<Jaq> what's wrong with the default? :)
<jdub> It is poopie.