Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

[David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>]

Martin Dickopp <martin-deb@zero-based.org> writes:

> U N T E S T E D :
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>
> find olddir -type d | while read d; do mkdir "`echo \"$d\" | sed s,^olddir,newdir,`"; done
> find olddir -type f -name \*.mp3 | while read f; do mv "$f" "`echo \"$f\" | sed s,^olddir,newdir,`"; done

I think my shell-scripting foo disagrees with yours.  I'd do something
like this (also untested):

  cd /old/directory/root
  mkdir /new/directory/root
  ln -s /new/directory/root new
  find . -type d -exec mkdir new/{} \;
  find . -type f -name '*.ogg' -exec cp {} new/{} \;
  rm new

If /new/directory/root is something short (like /mnt), you could just
as easily skip the symlink step.

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