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What do i need to type when i want to copy all the *.ogg file on /mnt/ntfs1 (My windows drive, many ogg files scatter all over the drive) to my Linux home directory?
Find takes a path and zero or more 'operators'. The first argument to find is the path, which indicates where find is to start its search. It is then followed by operators which specify what files to find. In this case, I told it a case insensitive search on name, to match the express '*.ogg', which is (as you might imagine) all files ending in .ogg. Finally, you have (optional) operators which specify what to do with found files. -exec asks for that command to be run on each of them. The default operator is simply '-print', which prints a list of found files, one per line. See the man page for find for more details.
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