[ale] Shell Scripting -> find files *.<ext> and move them to /backup

Jason Etheridge phasefx at magusaptus.com
Thu May 6 17:55:11 EDT 2004


Robert Heaven wrote:

> I think might work:
> 
> find / -name "*.jpg" -exec mv /mnt/mymachine/ {} \;

mv might have trouble across filesystems.  Could do a cp and then a rm.

-- Jason



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