Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 11:31:48 +0100 (CET) From: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org> To: mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell guru needed. Message-ID: <20030103113035.O48300-100000@foem.leiden.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com>
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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. 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.
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