finds mp3s and copies them over to whichever folder you want.
find /source/ -iname "*.mp3"|xargs -i mv "{}" / destination/
On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I understand that, but it has to be recursive. Like doing find /home/fred
> -exec mv *.foo fred/directory (I don't know the syntax for find) or ls -R
> fred | mv *.foo /home/directory
>
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> *Subject: *Re: [lug:16560] Find and move all files with certain file
> extension
>
> While in the directory that currently contains your files, type:
>
> mv *.mp3 /home/music
>
> mv is move
> *.mp3 selects all files with the mp3 extention
> /home/music is the destination to move the files to.
>
> Jeremiah E. Bess
> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:05, rhinox <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Need a quick command or script to find and move all files with a given
>> extension to the specified directory. I know that this is simple, i
>> just can't remember how to do it.
>>
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