On 05/31/2011 08:07 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: > 2011/5/30 Rony <[email protected]>: >>> find $HOME -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /music >>> >>> and similarly for video etc. >>> >>> >> I was just going to write that. I used >> >> find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv '{}' Media/Music/ \ ; > There are three problems with this. > > 1. If there is a something.mp3 in your current working directory, then > this will process precisely that file (and any other identically named > files). It will not process *all* mp3 files. In my original, I had > single-quoted *.mp3 for this reason.
I used different commands for mp3, MP3 etc. I guess all my songs have been copied as many other folders are now empty. > 2. Sometime in life, this find will descend into Media/Music and > process the files there again - which are already moved. Wastage of > CPU cycles. Which is why I had used a /music that is outside of $HOME. It happened when I ran the command again and it said "The file in /path/file.mp3 is the same as /path/file.mp3". Anyway, now all my files are in one place. > 3. find | xargs is superior to find -exec, due to the fact that the > former is more efficient. See: > http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/07/efficiency-of-find-exec-vs-find-xargs.html > > Hmm. Thanks. -- Freedom is a shared resource. Take some, leave the rest for others. Please trim your replies. Avoid cross posting to other lists. Post your replies below the relevant original text, leaving a line space. Regards, Rony. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
