The first line is the command. The second and 3rd lines are the errors
I am getting.
1. C:\backups>find \\server1\f\directory1\*.* -mtime -2 -print0 |
xargs cp {} d:\archive\archive_directory

2.xargs: argument line too long
3.cp: when copying multiple files, last argument must be a directory

All I am trying to do is copy the files resulting from the CP command
to d:\archive\archive_directory. I've tried various versions of this
to include various switches for CP and XARGS with no good results.
I've use the {} option as well as specifying the source directory. The
copy command seems to work; it does print out a list of the files with
the correct modification dates, but I cannot get them to copy to the
destination directory. This is being done on a Windows 2003 server
with the Unix utilities (find, cp, xargs) installed. Need solution
quickly.

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Clarification of Question by buddahlee-ga on 05 Jan 2006 18:43 PST

The alternate suggestion:
"C:\backups>for /F %i IN ('find \\server1\f\directory1\*.* -mtime -2')
DO cp %i d:\archive\archive_directory"
is good. This helps a lot. But although it works from a command line,
it does not work from a batch file (Need to schedule it as backup
job.) Thanks.

The following suggestion on Windows:
"find . -mtime -2 -print0 | xargs -n1 cp  --target-directory=/tmp/test"
generated the following error: cp: d:/proj/out: omitting directory

If you are trying to copy files from \\server1\f\directory1\ which are
less than 2 days old to d:\archive\archive_directory then try one of
this command.

For 'for' of windows
C:\backups>for /F %i IN ('find \\server1\f\directory1\*.* -mtime -2')
DO cp %i d:\archive\archive_directory

For 'for' of unix shell
C:\backups>for i in `find \\server1\f\directory1\*.* -mtime -2`; do cp
$i d:\archive\archive_directory; done

Try specifying a target directory to cp:

find \\server1\f\directory1\*.* -mtime -2 -print0 | xargs -n1 cp 
--target-directory=d:\archive\archive_directory

The following worked under Linux:
find . -mtime -2 -print0 | xargs -n1 cp  --target-directory=/tmp/test