I was a little sloppy with my English. I meant to say that I had trimmed everything from the -exec on out and it still came up with no results. The 'ls' was after much finageling and /home/church/Desktop/new is still empty.
<br><br>I see the value in having this skill in the toolbox, but I have clearly spent more time on it than I ought to have. Thank you for your help though. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Stephen R Laniel</b> <<a href="mailto:steve@laniels.org">steve@laniels.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 07:16:57PM -0500, Karl Sokol wrote:<br>> church@ubuntu:/share/new$ find . -type f -iregex '^....\.mp3$' -exec mv '{}' /<br>> home/church/Desktop/new/ ';'<br>> church@ubuntu:/share/new$<br>
><br>> For that matter, removing everything from '-exec' on doesn't find anything. I<br>> have tried many variations, but with no success.<br><br>That find command, with the -exec after it, wouldn't print<br>any output to the screen; it would just move all those files
<br>to ~church/Desktop/new .<br><br>If you want see which files 'find' will move without<br>actually moving them, trim everything from -exec on. That<br>will list the files; the -exec will move them.<br><br>> As for going back to itunes, something went drastically wrong and it shows that
<br>> she has no songs. So, we mounted it as a drive and copied the songs over to my<br>> computer.<br><br>It may show that she has no songs because the 'mv' command<br>moved them. Check /home/church/Desktop/new .<br>
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