From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 16:44:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB15D16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:44:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678C943D7B for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:44:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFF8C60D6 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 89862-06 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:53 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [63.117.97.163] (unknown [63.117.97.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43B160D4 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:51 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <42838801.1000507@makeworld.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:44:49 -0500 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050414) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD - Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.3.0 (20050424) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic Subject: Scripting help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 16:44:56 -0000 I would like some advice on how to script something that will search directories below a named root for all files ending with a certain file extension. Then, mv or cp them to another location. -- Best regards, Chris The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time, the last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent.