Find Command
The find command is very useful for organizing your files and folders, or in combination with bash scripting. For example I had an mp3 player which would only play mp3s that were not inside a directory. Now all my music is located inside sub-directories, so I could spend most of my day moving them out, or I could use the find command.
find . -iname \*.mp3 -type f -exec cp {} ./local/ \;
This line here will search every file and folder in the current directory, and if the file ends in “.mp3” then it will be copied to a folder called “local”,
A break down of the command is like this. -iname - Base of the file name with all leading directories removed. -type f - The file is of type “regular file”, for directories the flag is “d”. -exec - This executes a command if 0 status is returned, if there is a file, cp {} ./local/ ; - “cp” is the command to be run. “{}” is replaced by the current file name being processed, “;” terminates the command.
Hope this helps,
