[SOLVED] Need to copy all .jpg images in subdirectories to a specific directory

sikanders · 08-05-2010, 06:34 AM

Hi All,

I have .jpg files in many subdirectories from where I need to copy all the images from all the sub directories and paste them to a specific directory.

I have used `cp -rf *.jpg media/sik/` which only copies the .jpg files of the directory in which I was working.

Can somebody help me.......!!!

AlucardZero · 08-05-2010, 06:48 AM

Use find.

Code:

find . -name "*.jpg" -exec cp '{}' ./media/sik/ \;

sikanders · 08-05-2010, 09:14 PM

Thanks for reply.....but sorry I forgot to tell you that I need to perform the copy task without using find command...!!!

AlucardZero · 08-05-2010, 10:04 PM

why, do you not have find?

evo2 · 08-05-2010, 10:15 PM

Do you have zsh?

If yes:

Code:

cp **/*.jpg ./media/sik/

Evo2.

MTK358 · 08-06-2010, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by evo2

Do you have zsh?

If yes:

Code:

cp **/*.jpg ./media/sik/

Evo2.

Newer versions of bash can do that with the "shopt -s globstar" option.

But what of the .jpg file is in the current dir, not in a subdir?