Using Find

[maynarja]

This is most likely an easy one.

But i am writing a bash script to search for certain file extensions and then move the files to another directory. It works fine except that it searches the directory that the files are moved too.

find / -noleaf -iname "*.bak" -exec mv {} dump /;

I have tried the -path and -prune but it does not work for me or i have them in the worng places????

 

[WinblowsME]

If all else fails, try

1) Store absolute paths of .baks in a temp file
2) Loop through temp file and move each line (path to .bak) to the desired directory

 

[stefanwagner]

@maynarja:
Don't you get a warning about the wrong slashtype?

find / -iname "*.bak" -exec mv {} dump \;

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[maynarja]

No it works fine, but it tries to copy all the files in "dump" to "dump"

find / -iname "*.bak" -exec mv {} dump \;

So i am now doing it like this.

find / -noleaf -iname "*.bak" | grep -v $DUMP | xargs -i cp {} dump/

 

[stefanwagner]

Yes - of course.
Now I understand.

find / -iname "*.bak" -and -not -path "/dump" -exec mv {} /dump \;

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