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