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Date:      Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:54:13 -0800
From:      paul <pkdb1@attbi.com>
To:        mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Shell guru needed.
Message-ID:  <3E14ED45.5060506@attbi.com>
References:  <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com>

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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.
 >

you don't say if you need to preserve any of the path information 
when you move the file. The other poster's suggestion might work: 
my take on it would be to use a for loop:

for i in `find /some/dir -name "*.pdf"`;
	do mv $i /some/other/dir;
done
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