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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:55:05 -0500
From: Mike Jeays <mj001@rogers.com>
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To: mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com>
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Subject: Re: Shell guru needed.
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mike wrote:

>Hey guys. heres the skinny. I have a huge library and i want to organize it. I want find to go through recursively, and move any "pdf" files it finds to a certain directory. I need an example piece of script on how i would confront this. It will save me hours if not days so thanks in advance.
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This should do it.  Note the use of back-ticks to execute a command

for f in `find . -name "*pdf"`
do
  mv $f /target-directory
done




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