[ale] Shell Scripting -> find files *.<ext> and move them to /backup

[Nathan J. Underwood]

Ok, this should be an easy one, but I can't seem to remember how to do 
it.  I have a seriously dorked up Win98 workstation (won't boot) that a 
friend has given me to 'turn into linux'.  Catch is, though, he wants to 
keep all of his pictures (*.jpg, *.gif), movies (*.mpg), and documents 
(*.doc, *.xls).  I've done it before (thanks to the help of someone 
here, if I'm not terribly mistaken), and am currently perusing through 
the archives trying to find it, but need a script that'll do something 
like the following:

find all of the .jpg files, and move them to /mnt/mymachine (samba mount)
find all of the .gif files, and move them to /mnt/mymachine (samba mount)
etc.

The box is currently booted with knoppix, and I've mounted a directory 
on my box to copy the files to.  Now, I've just gotta find a relatively 
painless way to move 9,000+ files.

As a testament to how bad I am at shell scripting, I'm going to put what 
I have so far (tab #2 in my browser is at linuxdoc.org trying to get all 
the parameters right for find, exec, and copy).  As always, any help 
would be greatly appreciated.

find *.jpg -exec copy $1 /backup
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