[nflug] for the command line gurus

[Cyber Source]

Louis Spironello wrote:
> Hello Peter:
>
> You were almost there.  Try this:
>
> find /mnt/windowspart -iname "*.mp3" -exec /bin/mv -v {} <destination
> directory> \;
>
> That moves (not sure if you can a move or a copy.  If you wish to copy
> replace the /bin/mv with /bin/cp) and displays all files processed.
> You could of course leave off the "-v" to the move command.  Note:
> those are
> the opened and closed curely brackets and a space before and after the
> <destination directory>. 
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Lou
>
>
>
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> > Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:54:29 -0500
> > From: peter at thecybersource.com
> > To: nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: [nflug] for the command line gurus
> >
> > I probably asked this before but I can't recall the answer. We're
> > probably gonna need some dollar signs and maybe some back ticks...
> > I'm looking for a (simple) way to find files of a certain type and
> > eventually put them all somewhere WITHOUT the existing paths they
> > currently have.
> > Case in point, I always get someones completely bugged up windows box in
> > here and they have tons of mp3's they now want on their Linux side.
> > Mounting with ntfs-3g makes this easy.
> > So I currently do this on their windows partition...
> > 1. find /mnt/windowspart -iname "*.mp3" > foundmp3s
> > 2. I then tar them up with tar czf foundmp3s.tar.gz -T foundmp3s
> > 3. Then I extract them where I want on the Linux side but all the songs
> > are scattered all over with the paths they had before. I would like to
> > remove all the paths and just get the mp3s out.
> > I know that it probably could all be done in one shot but the thing I
> > want to focus on is removing the existing paths or just getting the
> > files themselves. Any ideas? TIA
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I knew we'd have some curlys in there too. Thanks, I will give this a shot!
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