Re: Shell guru needed.

[paul]

mike wrote:
> Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to
> organize it. I want find to go through recursively, and move
> any "pdf" files it finds to a certain directory. I need an
> example piece of script on how i would confront this. It will
> save me hours if not days so thanks in advance.
>

you don't say if you need to preserve any of the path information when you move the file. The other poster's suggestion might work: my take on it would be to use a for loop:

for i in `find /some/dir -name "*.pdf"`;
do mv $i /some/other/dir;
done
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