Hello,

Firstly, I'll admit right now that this is for an assignment and that according to the rules, members are not supposed to do my homework. However, I'm hoping that I can at least get some advice on what to do, some useful commands and what they do etc. I've seen so much information online, and just can't get my head around it at all.

The problem: How would I go about searching all directories for all files of a certain name, and then move them into a specific folder. The script should ignore the files already in that folder.

Now I know how to move files, how to search to some extent, loop and perform If statements. It's putting it all together that is a problem for me.

For example, I can use the command find / -name myfile to find the files, but then what?

Hope I can get some help.

well done for coming clean and obviously we're not going to give a full example, but i'd suggest you explore the -exec option of find.

I've taken a look at that, and it seems I'm supposed to be able to execute a command (mv in this case) to whatever I'm searching for. Or maybe I'm wrong.

I tried guessing how to use it after looking at the man info, and obviously it didn't work. I'm using

[EDIT: New code after some searching. Still doesn't work.]

find / -name myfile -exec mv /mydir {} \;

Obivously this is not the right way, but am I headed in the right direction?

Are you sure? Check the order of your "mv" parameters...

You may also want to restrict find to regular files (not dirs, symlinks and stuff). Checkout -type for that.

You are missing an argument on mv..where are you going to move it to?

This thread is over a year old - the poster has long passed (or failed) by now.

Doesn't time fly, eh?

I passed my test. Somehow...

Glad to hear it; working in the field yet?