find and copy command not working in bash

Question

This line works in the terminal, but not in a bash script:

cd /home/me/Downloads/Data/$currentYear/$currentMonth/$currentDay/
find . -name '*.wav' -exec cp {} $tempfolder ;

I’m trying to copy all the WAVE files from all the sub-directories to a temporary folder

Answer

So, I solved it. Turns out, that the cd /home/me/Downloads/Data/$currentYear/$currentMonth/$currentDay/ was not actually changing the directory for the find . to work. The script was trying to find the files in its own directory. Once i wrote find "$absolutePath" -name '*.wav' -exec cp {} "$tempfolder" ; it worked

Accepted Answer

So, I solved it. Turns out, that thecd /home/me/Downloads/Data/$currentYear/$currentMonth/$currentDay/was not actually changing the directory for thefind .to work. The script was trying to find the files in its own directory. Once i wrote find "$absolutePath" -name '*.wav' -exec cp {} "$tempfolder" ; it worked

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