[NTLUG:Discuss] scripting help

[Mailing Lists]

MadHat wrote:

> 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/ \;
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> and it will prompt before each mv command.
> 
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Thanks Much