cd /your/old/dir/
cp `grep -rl 'NNNN' *` /your/new/dir/
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If one needs another solution for any reason, there is always a for loop:

for file in `grep -rl 'NNNN' *` ; do cp $file dstdir/ ; done
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Also, this will find files that contain match. Use "-L" in grep, if you want those files which do not contain match.

Leonid Mamtchenkov aka TVSET

This is why another poster suggested xargs. xargs reads arguments from standard input, and executes a command with arguments. It chunks the input and repeats the command as required, to avoid going over any command-line-length limits of the shell.

Instead of just (xargs --help), try (man xargs) for some examples (search for EXAMPLES) and details.

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That is why broquaint used xargs. It runs a command for each argument (whitespace separated) it gets on its STDIN. Try reading man xargs

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flounder

Well, you are right about L but why doesn't grep -rL work? Maybe I didn't understand clearly but I checked this command and all are working correctly.

      
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