I need to copy all jpg files from a directory in linux

Question

I want to copy all the jpg files from a directory to another directory. How do i make to copy all files finishing in jpg?

Answer 1

cp {SourceDirectory}/*.jpg {DestinationDirectory}/.

Where {directory} is your from and to directories.

You could also

cd {SourceDirectory}
cp *.jpg {DestinationDirectory}/.

Note that Linux is case sensitive so *.jpg is different than *.JPG .

It's also possible to recurse through subdirectories with a -r parameter, but be careful with that.