Thanks for all the help guys. You have saved my life ;)
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:31 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:08 +1000, Charles Myers wrote:
> > I have a heap of photos (sorted by iPhoto) and it does it in multiple
> > directories of year, month,date etc..... I have moved the whole photo
> > tree over to my desktop (which runs ubuntu). I was hoping to move all
> > the .jpg's into a single directory if this is possible..
> >
> > I have tried mv /photos/*.jpg /newphotos -r but of course this dont
> > work :( Would anyone have any suggestions how to do what I wanted to do?
>
> There's a whole bunch of different ways to do it, and you just missed a
> long discussion on a similar subject. But one way:
>
> find /photos -name "*.jpg" | xargs -I{} mv {} /newphotos
>
> (slightly tested, but you may want to have a backup handy, or use cp
> instead of mv to make sure you don't lose anything)
>
> The find command searches the directory tree under /photos and outputs a
> list of filenames matching *.jpg . Then those names get piped to xargs,
> which runs the mv command given on its commandline, replacing {} with
> the input it's given. Have a read of the man pages for find and xargs
> for more on what you can do with them. And of course ask again here if
> you get stuck. :-)
>
> Have fun,
> --
> Pete
>
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