While backing up my Mac Os today I found the need to mass copy some files and directories from my home folder. Most of them contained a certain pattern so this helped a lot.
List of directories that start with “wo”:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex “.*/wo.*”
List of files that end with “rk”:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex “.*/.*rk$”
Copying to /destination/path/ all directories that contain “foo” in their name:
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -regex “.*/.*foo.*” -exec cp -r {} /destionation/path/ \;
In the above command lose the -r after cp and replace -type d with -type f to perform the same action, but on files.