On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:55:09AM -0500 Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could you please give another realworld example of using xargs and
> your definition of it. I had a glance through man xargs, but I enjoy input
> from humans that use it as well. :)
Xargs is pretty neat. You have to remem
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500, 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. I
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> 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
> &
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 w
Try any unix primer or
man find
or
find /my/unorganized/dir -name '*.pdf' -type f -exec echo mv {} /my/pdfs \;
and pray that you do not have files with identical names.
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, mike wrote:
> Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:58:11PM -0800, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:52:55PM -0800, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500, mike wrote:
> > > Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it. I
>want find to go through
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:52:55PM -0800, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500, 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
>director
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
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 th
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500, 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. I
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> Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want
> to organize it. I want fi
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