[ale] Shell Scripting -> find files *.<ext> and move them to /backup

[danscox at mindspring.com (Danny Cox)]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 17:53, Jason Etheridge wrote:
> > find / -name "*.jpg" -exec mv /mnt/mymachine/ {} \;
> 
> mv might have trouble across filesystems.  Could do a cp and then a rm.

	No, you're thinking of 'ln'.  mv will happily move a file wherever,
even if it must copy and unlink.

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