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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

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