General support • Error using "find" command

Greetings,

I am trying to use the following command to find and copy all my photos from an external hard drive to the Pictures directory.

find /media/da2s1/ -name "*.jpg" | xargs cp -t /home/ghost/Pictures/

The terminal is returning the following error:

cp: illegal option -- t
usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file target_file
cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-f | -i | -n] [-alpsvx] source_file ... target_directory

It is my understanding that the option "-t" directs the output to the target /home/ghost/Pictures/ but in the above error message, the "-t" is not listed. Is the "-t" not required?

Thank you in advance.

Statistics: Posted by ninjaradiopin01 — Sun Sep 29, 2024 2:18 pm

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