Find and copy all files with ‘.txt’ extention from a directory to another

find /home/binnyva -name '*.txt' | xargs cp -av --target-directory=/home/backup/ --parents

Creating a tag in SVN means that you copy the entire trunk to another folder in the ‘tags’ folder…

svn copy trunk/ tags/TAG_NAME

Use find and grep to search for a specific text in a directory. In this example, we search for files which uses the PHP short tag – <?

find -name '*.php' -exec grep '<?[^p\=]' {} \;