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

[Bridges, Doug]

Close but no cigar. 
 
find / -name "*.jpg" -exec mv {} /mnt/mymachine/ \;
 
You will want to replace the first / with the directory where the current hard drive is located.  Also note that this will overwrite any files that are named the same.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Robert Heaven
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 5:47 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Shell Scripting -> find files *.<ext> and move them to /backup


I think might work:

find / -name "*.jpg" -exec mv /mnt/mymachine/ {} \;


On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:06, Nathan J. Underwood wrote: 

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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