Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:58:11 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shell guru needed. Message-ID: <20030103015811.GA65686@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <20030103015255.GM5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> References: <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com> <20030103015255.GM5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net>
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:52:55PM -0800, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> 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
Sorry, I wasn't thinking here....after I double check the man page I saw
that -exec replaces {} with the path, not just the file name....the
above will not work...use the if;do;done syntax that someone else has
already posted.
Thanks!
Nathan
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