[NTLUG:Discuss] scripting help

[MadHat]

On Mar 5, 2004, at 8:18 AM, Mailing Lists wrote:
> I need to consolidate a large number of image files into a single 
> directory. Currently the images are spread out over multiple 
> directories. Is there an easy way to find all of these files and move 
> them to a specified directory.  The files are images for a large 
> website and i want to consolidate them all into a 
> /var/www/mywebsite/images directory. How can I do this.
>

find . -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec mv {} /var/www/mywebsite/ \;

or if you are a little scared, you can do

find . -type f -name "*.jpg" -ok mv {} /var/www/mywebsite/ \;

and it will prompt before each mv command.