I want to copy every .ttf file to current working directory but nothing seems to happen.
I am currently using this command :
find / | grep .ttf | xargs cp .
The detection is fine, if i run find / | grep .ttf it gives me the exact location
of every .ttf file in my disk.
but it just doesn't work with xargs cp .
I already tried this method to delete every file containing a word like this:
find / | grep chrome | xargs rm -rf
The method is fine, So what am i missing ?
You can do it in a single find command. Note that {} is the placeholder for the files found by find:
find / -name '*.ttf' -exec cp {} . \;
The syntax is cp <source> <destination>. When you use xargs cp . it expands to cp . <files found> which is why it doesn't work.
If your cp supports -t option, you can use xargs cp -t . since -t helps you specify the destination directory. But I'd suggest to use find+exec and this will also avoid issues due to shell metacharacters in filenames:
find / -name '*ttf' -exec cp -t . {} +