I have several folders like /music/1/a.mp3
and /music/2/b.mp3
All of the file names themselves are guaranteed to be different.
Is there a way, probably using the Terminal, to copy these files to /musicTemp/
excluding the folders?
In other words, the result of the two examples above should be:
/music/1/a.mp3
/music/2/b.mp3
into:
/musicTemp/a.mp3
/musicTemp/b.mp3
Best Answer
The
find
command will find all files of the specified pattern (-name), in this case a specific file type:*.mp3
.-exec
makes all following arguments to find to be taken as arguments to the command until an argument consisting of;
is encountered (at the end, with literal escape to prevent expansion by the shell). In this case, the command we wish to execute is a file copy (cp
) on files that match pattern ({}
) and copy those files to/destination_dir
. This command should do the trick: