[Linux-disciples] Moving files

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:16:39PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Also, I don't think the -depth option has any significance here.

Come to think of it, when I wrote that I was thinking that
we might be moving some directories, in which case -depth
has some value. But if we're just moving files, then it
doesn't.

> I would go with the simpler:
> 
> find . -type f -iregex '^....\.mp3$' -exec mv '{}' [newfolder] ';'
> 
> which I think in all imaginable cases does the same thing.

If you don't want to move files whose names contain dashes
or underscores, then the [[:alnum:]] one works better.

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