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HI --
Let's say that all of my music files are in folders/subfolders.
like this:
/mnt/music/artist/album/tune.mp3
Now let's say I would like all of the music files to be in ...
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- 08-18-2004 #1Just Joined!
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find, cp, iname, -exec...whaaa
HI --
Let's say that all of my music files are in folders/subfolders.
like this:
/mnt/music/artist/album/tune.mp3
Now let's say I would like all of the music files to be in one big directory:
/mnt/music/tune.mp3
Is there a utility that will extract folder contents up to 4 levels deep?
or how about help with this string:
find /mnt/music -iname "*.mp3" -exec cp '*.mp3' /mnt/music
Thanks
- 08-19-2004 #2Just Joined!
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SO I got some assistance with this one at another forum...here goes the command to accomplish what I wanted:
find /mnt/music -iname "*.mp3" -exec cp '{}' /mnt/music ';'
FInd all ot the .mp3 files in the music directory (doesn't matter that they are in subfolders)
copy (or mv) every found one '{}' to the root /mnt/music directory
can also use -exec echo cp (or mv) to see what's going on.
machiner


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