find and copy

[ppatryk]

hey, trying to find files and copy to another folder, with 2 file extensions, dont know why its not working it is igoring the txt and just copying over doc, could someone take a wee look? -

find $HOME -name "*.txt" -o -name "*.doc" -exec cp {} $HOME/test \;

thank you

[atreyu]

Hey,

Try wrapping the name parameters in (escaped) parentheses:

 find . \( -name '*.txt' -o -name '*doc' \) -exec ls -l {} \;