cp: cannot stat 'ls -l ~/ | grep ^.r\w\-': No such file or directory

I have been trying to copy all files with read/write permissions for owners from the home directory to another directory but i've been facing this problem as in the title. any help? :(

subDir=`date ' %y%m%d%H%M%S'` mkdir $subDir cp -R 'ls -l ~/ | grep ^.r\w\-' $subDir chmod -wx $subDir/*

CodePudding user response：

Do not parse ls. To find files use find.

find . -type f -perm -u=rw -exec cp {} "$subDir" ';'
# Faster:
... -exec cp -t "$subDir" {}

I think you want find ~ -maxdepth 1, I do not know if recursive files or not.