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

Telling Git when you’ve added, deleted and renamed files gets tedious. Use this command and Git will look at the files in the current directory and work everything out for itself. The -z and -0 options prevent ill side-effects from filenames containing strange characters.

git-ls-files -d -m -o -z | xargs -0 git-update-index --add --remove

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