I have almost 6000 directories with thousands of files:
all/recup_dir.1/1.txt all/recup_dir.1/2.jpg ... all/recup_dir.5987/1.txt all/recup_dir.5987/2.txt ... and I want to move all .txt files in the all/txt folder. I have used this command:
mv **/*.txt txt but I get this error:
bash /bin/mv arg list too long How can I do?
find solution:
find all -type f -name "*.txt" ! -path "all/txt/*" -exec echo mv -t all/txt '{}' \; Maybe try this. To avoid moving files just moved to all/txt, move them to a new txt directory outside of all, then move txt under all. Here we go:
$ mkdir txt The next one will only print all move commands. Check that you like what you see:
$ find all | sed -rn 's#^all/recup_dir.([^/]*)/([^/]*).txt$#mv -n "&" "txt/\1-\2.txt"#p' mv -n "all/recup_dir.20/2.txt" "txt/20-2.txt" mv -n "all/recup_dir.20/1.txt" "txt/20-1.txt" mv -n "all/recup_dir.19/5.txt" "txt/19-5.txt" mv -n "all/recup_dir.19/4.txt" "txt/19-4.txt" ... When satisfied, run them by appending | sh:
$ find all | sed -rn 's#^all/recup_dir.([^/]*)/([^/]*).txt$#mv -n "&" "txt/\1-\2.txt"#p' | sh then put txt where it belongs:
$ mv txt all 
1.txt) will overwrite each other. How do you want to resolve this conflict?