[X4U] command line cp question

[Kansas Territory]

On Dec 1, 2005, at 9:38 PM, Stroller wrote:

>
> On Dec 1, 2005, at 9:28 pm, Kansas Territory wrote:
>> Could someone give me a hint or a clue as to how I could on a  
>> server, via the command line..
>> COPY all files that end in .pl   into a directory.
>>
>> I know if I'm in one directory.. I could do something like
>>
>> cp *.pl  backupdirectory
>>
>> But I want to start up on the root level  /      and copy ALL  
>> files on the server than end in .pl
>
>    find / -name "*.pl" -exec cp \{} backupdir \;


Thanks for the reply.

find / -name "*.pl" -exec cp \{} perlscripts/

i tried running this from the command line...  I get:


find: missing argument to `-exec'


I'm trying to run this from a command line.. on  a Linux box if that  
makes any difference ?

Kansas