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To: Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
<celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I already do this, but sometimes the files are spread around *many*
> directories. I.e, the model of having everything in a
> version-controlled directory is unpractical, so that's why I think it
> would be useful.

If you are on *nix, then maybe something like this is what you are looking for?

mkdir -p ~/org/backup && \
find $HOME -type f -name '*\.org' ! -path "$HOME/org/*" \
     -exec cp -t ~/org/backup/ \{\} \;

-- 
Suvayu

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