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Search and copy multiple files from multiple locations to one destination - Linux command line
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find . "*.wav" -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t ~/Music
# referenced from
# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26234041/is-it-possible-to-pipe-the-results-of-find-to-a-copy-command-cp
# find . -iname "*.SomeExt" -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t Directory
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