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.
I'm no shell guru but how about something like find ./yourdirectory -name "*pdf" -exec mv {} ./newdirectory \; you may have to play with the syntax a little but wouldn't this do it? > -- David Bear College of Public Programs/ASU Mail Code 0803 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message