On 05/31/2011 08:07 AM, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
2011/5/30 Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com:
find $HOME -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /music
and similarly for video etc.
I was just going to write that. I used
find . -name *.mp3 -exec mv '{}' Media/Music/ \ ;
There are three problems with this.
- If there is a something.mp3 in your current working directory, then
this will process precisely that file (and any other identically named files). It will not process *all* mp3 files. In my original, I had single-quoted *.mp3 for this reason.
I used different commands for mp3, MP3 etc. I guess all my songs have been copied as many other folders are now empty.
- Sometime in life, this find will descend into Media/Music and
process the files there again - which are already moved. Wastage of CPU cycles. Which is why I had used a /music that is outside of $HOME.
It happened when I ran the command again and it said "The file in /path/file.mp3 is the same as /path/file.mp3". Anyway, now all my files are in one place.
- find | xargs is superior to find -exec, due to the fact that the
former is more efficient. See: http://blog.endpoint.com/2010/07/efficiency-of-find-exec-vs-find-xargs.html
Hmm. Thanks.