How to copy files from subdirectory with same name to another location in linux [closed]

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Consider I have the following file structure. Where “main” is the directory and the following are the subdirectories under it. For example, China is a subdirectory under main and Male and Female are subdirectories under China

main

  • China
    • Male
    • Female
  • Korea
    • Male
    • Female
  • England
    • Male
    • Female
      .
      .
      .

(so on)

Now I want to copy the contents of the subdirectories named “Male” which are under main to another location. Is there any command for it? Can someone help me with this. Thanks.

I tried
cp main/*/Male/* destination , but this will fail if there is no such subdirectory named “male” for some directories under main

  • 1

    Write a script. for i in main/*/Male/*; do ......

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    Your diagnostics are incorrect. There will be no error; it will simply fail to match any directories which … don’t match. Demo: ideone.com/gfh21W

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