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Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory

Terminal - Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory
find . -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec sh -c 'exec cp -f "$@" /home/user/dir' find-copy {} +
2009-12-08 19:31:16
User: mariusz
Functions: cp find sh
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Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory

I used this command to recursively gather all mp3 files that were previously imported into their own directories (sorted by band name) in Songbird.

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find . -iname '*.mp3' -type f -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 cp {} </path>
2009-12-08 20:50:48
User: sputnick
Functions: cp find xargs
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Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory

No problem with word splitting. That should works on many Unix likes.

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find . -type f -iname '*.mp3' -exec cp {} ~/mp3/ \;
2009-12-09 00:19:14
User: SlimG
Functions: cp find
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Find and copy scattered mp3 files into one directory

This command copies all filenames in the current dir and subdirs that end in .mp3 regardless of case (also matches .MP3 .mP3 and .Mp3)

It copies all the files to the "mp3" folder in your home directory.

If you want to see the files that are beeing copied, replace "cp {}" with "cp -v {}"

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Yikes..this can be much less complicated. The -t option of cp lets you specify the destination first:

find . -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec cp -t /home/user/dir {} +
Comment by bwoodacre 180 weeks and 2 days ago

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