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copied!<p>You can do all that at once with find:</p> <pre><code>find /usr -type d -name My\ Files -exec rsync -avR '{}' /iscsi \; </code></pre> <p>For more info <code>man find</code>, right before the end there are several examples. Alternatively you can pipe the results using the <code>xargs</code> utility.</p> <p>You should explore your manuals more througly, there is a lot of treasure to be found.</p> <p>On a bash script you could also put:</p> <pre><code>export MIVARIABLE=$(find /usr -type d -name My\ files) </code></pre> <p>and then </p> <pre><code>for i in $MIVARIABLE ;do rsync -avR $i /iscsi; done </code></pre> <p>But this has drawbacks among them if your results are very big, it may exceed bash maximum text space available for a variable , and if the retrieved names include spaces, some utilities may go crazy.</p> <p>In a modern system the maximum size on a bash environment variable can be from 8kib to nearly 2MiB, if you put to much info on a variable you'll get a <code>Argument list too long</code> error.</p> <p>So if you need to iterate over a file/directory list you better use find built-in functions or in cooperation with <code>xargs</code>. Read carefully their manuals and try some dry runs using <code>echo your_command_line</code> instead, so you gain appropiate experience and confidence with the utilities. Look for the <code>-print0</code> function on <code>find</code> as well as the <code>-0</code> command on <code>xargs</code> which are designed to avoid some problems with filenames with spaces and symbols in their names.</p> <p>EDIT: <code>find</code> will handle white spaces correctly with the -exec operator:</p> <pre><code>find /usr -type d -name My\ Files -exec rsync -avR '{}' /iscsi \; -exec rm -rf '{}'\; </code></pre> <p>would do what you need one after the other. I was pointing out options, so you could decide what was better suited to your needs, I did not meant to confuse you.</p> <p>Edit2:</p> <pre><code>find /usr -type d -name 'My Files' -exec rsync -avR '{}' /iscsi \; -exec rm -rf '{}'\; </code></pre> <p>funciona igual que el ejemplo de arriba. Cuando bash lee 'My Files' it takes the whole word togheter and does not treat the white spaces inside differently</p>

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