Re: Moving files help

Worked perfectly!!!! THANKS A LOT JUSTIN!!!

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 00:08:20 +0000, Justin Dieters
<enderak@mtaonline.net> wrote:
> Well, for a simple find and move like this, you can just use the
> built-in exec option with the 'find' command.
>
> Something like:
> find /home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld -type f -exec mv {}
> /some/other/directory \;
>
> Note that if you move files to a directory somewhere within
> /home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld, you will probably get a bunch of
> errors saying file1.rar and file1.rar are the same file because it might
> find the file again after you move it, but you can safely ignore them if
> this is the case. To avoid these errors, simply move to some directory
> above /home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld, as shown above.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Justin
>
>
> Scott Johnson wrote:
>
> >I have a bunch of files in different directories...
> >
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/0/0/1/file1.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/1/0/1/file2.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/C/9/1/file3.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/D/A/1/file4.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/2/B/1/file5.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/A/A/1/file6.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/F/3/1/file7.rar
> >/home/scott/wget/host.domain.tld/5/E/1/file8.rar
> >
> >with no pattern to the directory structure after the host.domain.tld
> >directory. What I need to do is move all files from these various
> >directories into a single directory.
> >
> >How can I move these files (recursively)?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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Scott Johnson
scott.a.johnson@gmail.com
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