Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:52:55 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell guru needed. Message-ID: <20030103015255.GM5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com> 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. First, turn on line-wrapping in your MUA. find /path/to/my/libarary -name *.pdf -exec mv {} /new/dir/{} \; Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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