Moving all mp3s to a single directory

wjleon · 07-12-2005, 02:54 PM

Hi, I got a simple question this time: I want to move all my mp3s to a single directory. I now that to find them a can use find like this

<code>
fina / -name "*mp3"
</code>

I think I need to use a pipe to connnect the find with the mv command but I don't really know how.

Thanks in advance,
Wilmer

Tinkster · 07-12-2005, 03:15 PM

Almost there :)

find / -iname "*.mp3" -exec mv "{}" /path/to/target/. \;

darkleaf · 07-12-2005, 03:18 PM

You might want to check if there are no sounds from programs being moved

I don't know which extension they have but you never know.

v00d00101 · 07-13-2005, 01:58 AM

You may want to add a grep /home to that somewhere, so that it restricts moving, to files only found in /home. /home can be substituted for other places as well.

Tinkster · 07-13-2005, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by v00d00101
You may want to add a grep /home to that somewhere, so that it restricts moving, to files only found in /home. /home can be substituted for other places as well.

If he wanted to achieve that he'd have done a
find /home
instead of a
find /

Cheers,
Tink