How can we avoid 'are the same file' warning message when using 'cp' in Linux?
bash, copy, cp, linux
Solution
The problem is that you try to copy a file to itself. You can avoid it by excluding the destination directory from the results of the find command like this:
find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -not -path "$HOME/newdir/*" -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t "$HOME/newdir"
Problem
I'm trying to copy certain files from one directory to another. Using this command ``` find "$HOME" -name '*.txt' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t $HOME/newdir ``` I get an warning message saying cp: '/home/me/newdir/logfile.txt' and '/home/me/newdir/logfile.txt' are the same file How can I avoid this warning message?