Copy only files, not folder structure from a directory in Unix

Question

I found this solution after googling here but I was horrified: too complicated solution. I am pretty sure some cp -versions have flags for this or just simple `find` will do. So how do you copy files, not directory structure, in Unix?

Accepted Answer

I would use `find`, cannot find a flag in my GNU Coreutils 8.5 `cp` about not-preserving directory-structure. Anyway the one-liner:

```
find . -type f -exec cp '{}' ~/Backup/ \;
```

Copy only files, not folder structure from a directory in Unix

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