After a piece of software/a bash script to mass-move files [Fedora Core 6]

Alux · 11-23-2006, 12:52 PM

Basically I have a folder with many sub folders, each containing one more sub folder and a file within that. What I need is for it to go into each of thse sub-sub folders, get the file and movie it somewhere else.

Anyone know an easy way?

muha · 11-23-2006, 01:12 PM

something like this will work for all files named .txt:

Code:

find . -name *.txt| xargs mv {} ./all_files_go_here \;

or to move all files:

Code:

find . -type f -exec mv {} ./all_files_go_here \;

I can't check the syntax since i'm not on my machine atm, might contain typos!

Alux · 11-23-2006, 01:16 PM

I'm getting an errorrr..

Quote:

mv: target `./676673/203711296/Home_Movies_-_302_-_Breaking_Up_Is_Hard_To_Do.part1.rar' is not a directory

Script is:

Quote:

find . -name *.rar| xargs mv {} "/root/Downloads/RARs/" \;

edit:

Other one worked, thanks a bunch!

muha · 11-23-2006, 02:33 PM

Ah, with xargs this would work:

Code:

find . -name *.txt |xargs mv --target-directory=./some_dir

Find all files *.txt recursively and mv them to some_dir.