On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500 mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Can't believe no one has used xargs yet... find /path/to/messydir -name '*.pdf' -type f | xargs -I % mv \ /path/to/messydir/% /path/to/newdir/% -- David S. Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schulz To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
