Unix ---> Advanced wildcards

Let's say we want to perform some command on a set of files in the working directory and all the directories below it. What if there was a Hewlett-Packard television advertisement that asked, "What if I had a slew of subdirectories containing mounds of C source code, and I wanted to copy all of the library files (files with a .h extension) into a separate directory called library. How could I do it?" If you had read the next line, you would respond immediately with the following:¹

    cp `find . -name '*.h' -print` library

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¹ That is, if you talk to your television.

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