I want to get the number of lines in my application. I am using this code:
find . "(" -name "*.m" -or -name "*.h" ")" -print | xargs wc -l
It is working fine in other applications but for one of my applications it is giving the error "xargs unterminated quote".
The canonical way to solve quotes, spaces and special characters problems when using find is to use the -exec option instead of xargs.
For your case you can use:
find . "(" -name "*.m" -or -name "*.h" ")" -exec wc -l "{}" \;
After some tinkering, I found that this command worked for me (because I had spaces and unmatched quotations in my filenames):
find . -iname "*USA*" -exec cp "{}" /Directory/to/put/file/ \;
. refers to the location the search is being run
-iname followed by the expression refers to the match criteria
-exec cp "{}" /Directory/to/put/file/ \; tells the command to execute the copy command where each file found via -iname replaces "{}"
You need the \; to denote to the exec command that the cp statement is ending.