Pipe text file contents into "find" command then xargs into cpio

[patski]

Hi folks,

I've used "awk" to extract a list of filenames into a text file, which looks like this:

A008_C004_07141K.R3D
A009_C001_04233L.R3D
A102_C008_02186Q.R3D
etc

There are about 200 files in total. I'm now trying to locate these files on a drive and copy them to another location. I've tried piping contents of the text file into a find command and then into cpio, but I can't work out how to make it clear to the find command that what I'm giving it is filenames. This is what I've come up with so far:

cat filenames.txt > find -name | cpio -pdmv /path/to/destination

Any brainy ideas would be much appreciated!

Best,

Patski

[histrungalot]

My example, I don't have a file A.
$ cat t.txt
a.cpp
A
b.pl
$ cat t | xargs -Ifile find . -name 'file'
./c++/a.cpp
./perlCode/b.pl
$
On my Mac the xargs is -I but i have seen it as -i on my RedHat at work.

[patski]

Histrungalot,

That works brilliantly. Thanks a million!!!

Best,

Patski


QUOTE=histrungalot;878760]My example, I don't have a file A.
$ cat t.txt
a.cpp
A
b.pl
$ cat t | xargs -Ifile find . -name 'file'
./c++/a.cpp
./perlCode/b.pl
$
On my Mac the xargs is -I but i have seen it as -i on my RedHat at work.[/QUOTE]