Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 09:35:23 -0700 From: David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> To: mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Shell guru needed. Message-ID: <20030103093523.A15099@asu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com>; from mike@labs.unixhideout.com on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500 References: <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com>
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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. It will save me hours if not days so thanks in advance.
I'm no shell guru but how about something like
find ./yourdirectory -name "*pdf" -exec mv {} ./newdirectory \;
you may have to play with the syntax a little but wouldn't this do it?
>
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