command to find and move jpg's
 

Hello
I have searched the forum but am trying to find the command that will search through a folder with loads of sub folders through several layers and move all jpeg/jpg to another new folder and maybe rename any duplicate images/names..all folders are on an external hd
Many thanks

That would be a combination of the find and mv utilities. See their respective manual pages ...

... and look at -type, -name, and -exec options for the former and the --backup=numbered option for the latter. Be sure your backup copies are good before experimenting on real images.

That's harder. By what criteria will you decide that they are duplicate. It might be better to run a duplicate image detection program after copying. Geeqie, Fdupes, and Digikam could do that.

I only meant rename duplicate images in the context of the same named file in different folders - not the image itself.

Look at:
man comm
man sort
man mv
man rename

Make 2 lists of files, one for each directory, then compare them.

You can list all .jpg in dir with
Example:

I have been trying to get this to work -

find / -Folder1 "*.jpg" -type f -exec /bin/mv {} /Folder2/jpg \;

The path must come first, before any of the options. Try this:

Note that there is an implied logical AND between each of the options if nothing is specified.

Folder1 and Folder2 are both on my desktop

mint@mint-HP-Pro3500-Series:~/Desktop$ find . -type f \( -Folder1 "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" \) -exec cp '{}' /Folder2 \;
find: unknown predicate `-Folder1'
mint@mint-HP-Pro3500-Series:~/Desktop$ find /Folder1 -type f -name "*.jpg" -exec /bin/mv {} /Folder2/. \;
find: ‘/Folder1’: No such file or directory
mint@mint-HP-Pro3500-Series:~/Desktop$ find /Folder1 -type f \( -name "*.jpg" -o -name "*.jpeg" \) -exec /bin/mv {} /Folder2/. \;
find: ‘/Folder1’: No such file or directory

Then use whichever absolute path is appropriate for find and mv

It would be the same path as you would use with ls to list the file names for either folder.

Thank you very much for the help

No problem.

Once you have it working, I'd recommend taking another look at the manual page and reviewing the options you just used:

The page is long and a bit overwhelming at first but it is the authoritative reference on how to use the find utility so it is worth learning to navigate. This is a good opportunity to try it.

Thanks for the suggestion - I will get to grips with man find -
Thanks again for the help