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Subject: Re: Shell guru needed.(xargs question)
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:55:09 -0500
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Could you please give another realworld example of using xargs and
your definition of it. I had a glance through man xargs, but I enjoy input
from humans that use it as well. :)

Thanks.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David S. Jackson" <deepbsd@earthlink.net>
To: "mike" <mike@labs.unixhideout.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: Re: Shell guru needed.


> On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:03:37PM -0500 mike <mike@labs.unixhideout.com> 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.
> 
> Can't believe no one has used xargs yet...
> 
> find /path/to/messydir -name '*.pdf' -type f | xargs -I % mv \
> /path/to/messydir/% /path/to/newdir/%
> 
> -- 
> David S. Jackson                        dsj@dsj.net
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