Re: move files using find

2017-07-14 Thread David Henderson
Nevermind. I ended up figuring it out. Granted it's not for BB, but just as a follow-up if anyone comes across this thread they will have what I came up with: find /tmp/test -type f \( -name \*.typelib -o -name \*.gir \) -exec /bin/sh -c 'TEMP="${1#*/}"; mkdir -p "${0}/${TEMP%/*}" 2>/dev/null;

Re: move files using find

2017-07-14 Thread David Henderson
Oops! It does appear that I was using GNU find, not BB. Sorry about that. Any thoughts on how this can be done without execdir then using BB find? Thanks, Dave On 7/14/17, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:52 PM, David Henderson >

Re: move files using find

2017-07-14 Thread Denys Vlasenko
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:52 PM, David Henderson wrote: > Good evening all! I am trying to move files from one location to > another while preserving the path. If I search for a directory, it > seems like I have found the correct syntax: > > find

move files using find

2017-07-13 Thread David Henderson
Good evening all! I am trying to move files from one location to another while preserving the path. If I search for a directory, it seems like I have found the correct syntax: find "/usr/local/share/man" -type d -execdir mv -- {} "/opt/test" \; However, if I try to move files, I can't seem to