copy same file into multiple directories - permission denied error

Question

Please help me in solving the below issue:

I want copy a file say info.txt into multiples directories and their sub-directories .

I used this command:

1. go to parent directory.
2. find . -type d -exec cp ./info.txt {}/ \;

But I'm getting the below error:

cp: cannot create regular file /info.txt : permission denied.

Answer 1

You don't have permission to copy to the root / directory. Are you sure you want to copy there?

Be aware that find . -type d will return the current directory (.), so copying ./info.txt to the current directory doesn't make sense, because it already exists there.

If you want to ignore the current directory use:

find . -type d ! -name "." -exec cp ./info.txt {}/ \;