I understand that, but it has to be recursive. Like doing find /home/fred -exec mv *.foo fred/directory (I don't know the syntax for find) or ls -R fred | mv *.foo /home/directory Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
-----Original Message----- From: Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:08:18 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lug:16560] Find and move all files with certain file extension While in the directory that currently contains your files, type: mv *.mp3 /home/music mv is move *.mp3 selects all files with the mp3 extention /home/music is the destination to move the files to. Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:05, rhinox <[email protected]> wrote: > Need a quick command or script to find and move all files with a given > extension to the specified directory. I know that this is simple, i > just can't remember how to do it. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
