[SOLVED] Trying to make command into bash alias

Question

Here is a command I would like to make into an easy to use bash alias:
#Copy results of a find to somewhere
find -iname "*something*" -exec cp '{}' /path/to/copy/results/to \;
I realize there are usually several ways to do something in the shell, so if a better way of course I'm all for any tips but if I wanted to make this an alias so that I just had to do:
alias pattern pathtocopyto
How would I? I have tried:
alias findcp="find -iname "$1" -exec cp '{}' $2/ \;"
But this does not work, says it cannot find the search term when I ran it in a test dir full of properly named files and dirs.
TIA for any help
Last edited by colbert (2008-12-17 23:19:09)

Answer 1

Hmm, I tried that Procyon, I could see the HD light on the case go solid so it was running the find but it did not work. I have a file called "layla.mp3" and a dir called "test" in the current dir, ran it like this:
findcp layla test
Gave no result and test was still empty Thanks for the help guys hopefully can get this to go..