How to list files in directory using bash? [closed]

Question

How to copy only the regular files in a directory (ignoring sub-directories and links) to the same destination? (bash on Linux) A very large number of files

Answer 1

for file in /source/directory/* do     if [[ -f $file ]]; then         #copy stuff ....     fi done 

Answer 2

To list regular files in /my/sourcedir/, not looking recursively in subdirs:

find /my/sourcedir/ -type f -maxdepth 1 

To copy these files to /my/destination/:

find /my/sourcedir/ -type f -maxdepth 1 -exec cp {} /my/destination/ \;