Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 15:14:22 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: sagacious <sagacious@unixhideout.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: shell guru needed. Message-ID: <20020721031422.GB62549@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <000001c2305d$ec6d40f0$0a01a8c0@athlon> References: <000001c2305d$ec6d40f0$0a01a8c0@athlon>
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 10:25:46PM -0400, sagacious wrote:
> I need to use find, or a similar command to search a massive amount of
> directories recursively, and when it finds a certain file extension I
> want it to move the file to another location. Thanks.
How about:
# find /path/to/directory -name '*.myext' -exec mv {} /somewhere \;
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Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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