CentOS - Feb 2005 - How to cp a file to every subdirectory

I need to copy a file (or actually a symlink) to every subdirectory on a
path.

I know that cp -s will do the copy I want, but how can I get it to go into
every subdirectory?  I''ve tried different iterations of ls to get a
listing
of directories only (recursively) without success.

TIA

Mike

Mike Kercher wrote:
> I need to copy a file (or actually a symlink) to every subdirectory on a
> path.
>
> I know that cp -s will do the copy I want, but how can I get it to go into
> every subdirectory?  I''ve tried different iterations of ls to get
a listing
> of directories only (recursively) without success.
>
> TIA
>
> Mike
find <directory> -type d -exec echo cp <file> "{}" \;

Remove the echo to do it for real.

-Mike

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Mike Kercher wrote:
| I need to copy a file (or actually a symlink) to every subdirectory on a
| path.
|
| I know that cp -s will do the copy I want, but how can I get it to go into
| every subdirectory?  I''ve tried different iterations of ls to get a
listing
| of directories only (recursively) without success.

find . -type d -exec ln -s /path/to/orignal/file "{}"/. \;

this includes the current directory
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Michael Best wrote:
> Mike Kercher wrote:
>> I need to copy a file (or actually a symlink) to every subdirectory
>> on a path.
>>
>> I know that cp -s will do the copy I want, but how can I get it to go
>> into every subdirectory?  I''ve tried different iterations of
ls to
>> get a listing of directories only (recursively) without success.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Mike
>
> find <directory> -type d -exec echo cp <file> "{}" \;
>
> Remove the echo to do it for real.
>
> -Mike
Thanks Mike and Donovan.  That worked like a champ!  I didn''t even
think of
using find!

Mike