Thom Paine wrote:
The example I was starting with was:
find -name *.tmp -exec rm -rf {} \;
And I tried to get it to seek out all my *.ogg files and dump them into
a media folder.
like:
find . -name '*.ogg' -exec mv {} /media/oggs \;
To prevent it from moving files repeatedly, I changed to the directory I
wanted to search and moved it to a different directory on another mount.
It won't move anything repeatedly, but it'll over write files with the
same name. It'll also move directories, if their name ends in ".ogg"
I can't get it to work though. I thought I could substitute rm -rf with
mv /media/oggs but that didn't seem to work.
The name of the file that matches the contstraints you described to
"find" is substituted for the {} after -exec. Since mv expects the
source before the destination, you'd need to use "mv {} /destination"
