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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers find mv and create directory structure Post 302494524 by fistikuffs on Monday 7th of February 2011 01:59:05 PM
Old 02-07-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by ctsgnb
So you want to move all your files
Code:
/whatever/b/*.flac

to
Code:
/whatever/newdir/b/*.flac

?
just
Code:
mkdir -p /whatever/newdir
cp -pr /whatever/b /whatever/newdir

Hi thanks for the reply. That's not exactly what I'm after. I have a directory "b/" with flac, mp3 and wma files in sub folders say:
Code:
b/artist1/foo.mp3
              b/artist2/foo.wma
              b/artist3/foo.flac

I want to search for folders containing flac files in "b/" and mv the directory containing the flac files to my new folder "flac/". tbh I don't think i explained it very well the first time Smilie
 

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NAME

       xcfa - GTK+ Implementation of the GNU shell command.

SYNOPSIS

       xcfa [OPTION]... [FILE]...

       -h, -help
	      Displays this help section and exits.

       -version
	      Displays the version of the program and exits.

       -verbose
	      Activate verbose mode

       -systray
	      Activate systray mode

       DESCRIPTION
	      Interface contains console tools (cdparanoia, lame, oggenc, ...).
	      Allows extraction of audio from DVD to .wav format.
	      Allows extracting audio from CD to formats such as: wav, mp3, flac, ogg, m4a, mpc, ape.
	      Allows encoding audio to: wav, mp3, flac, ogg, m4a mpc, ape.
	      Allows encoding the .wma format to: wav, mp3, flac, ogg, m4a mpc, ape.
	      Allows cutting of files.
	      Allows management of common file-types before converting.
	      Allows management of bitrates, frequencies, and channels.
	      Allows creation of CD covers.
	      Developed with Gtk2 and Glade and runs under the X window system on the GNU platform.

USAGE

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ADDING THE GPG KEY

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       Add the following lines to your [ /etc/apt/sources.list ] file for automatic updates:

       ## Xcfa for i386 and amd64
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COMPLEMENTARY PACKAGE INSTALLATION
:
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CHANGELOG

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AUTHOR

       XCFA is developed by Claude Bulin (xcfa@tuxfamily.org)

4.3.1								 Wed, 23 May 2012							   xcfa(1)
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