How to copy only a specific amount of file?

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I have a directory with almost 100,000 files inside. I want to copy 20,000 of them to another directory. Is it possible to do this with the cp command or is there any other way?

Which 20,000 do you want to copy? – symcbean Aug 29 '11 at 11:26 — symcbean, Aug 29 '11 at 11:26

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 29 '11 at 09:04

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for FILE in `find /your/directory ! -type d  | head -n 20000`; do cp $FILE /destination/dir/; done

answered Aug 29 '11 at 09:04

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