Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:55:09 -0500 From: "Danny" <lists@brenius.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: <deepbsd@earthlink.net> Subject: Re: Shell guru needed.(xargs question) Message-ID: <003301c2b340$7e473570$7801a8c0@afi> References: <200301030103.h0313b67012698@labs.unixhideout.com> <20030103152501.GA1925@sylvester.dsj.net>
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Could you please give another realworld example of using xargs and your definition of it. I had a glance through man xargs, but I enjoy input from humans that use it as well. :) Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net> To: "mike" <mike@labs.unixhideout.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:25 AM Subject: Re: Shell guru needed. > On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500 mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com> 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. > > Can't believe no one has used xargs yet... > > find /path/to/messydir -name '*.pdf' -type f | xargs -I % mv \ > /path/to/messydir/% /path/to/newdir/% > > -- > David S. Jackson dsj@dsj.net > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. > It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schulz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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