Today cron doesn’t want to regexp my “cp [a-Z]* …”. Even if i set SHELL=/bin/bash in the crontab it got the error “cp: cannont stat [a-Z]*: No such file or directory”. Manually on the shell there is no problem with regexp (it’s locales fault; cron uses the POSIX locale and here I should use [a-zA-Z] as regexp). So I tried find in combination with xargs:
find /dir -print0 -type f | xargs cp -t /target/dir
The commandline switch -t makes it easier to use xargs with cp and even mv.