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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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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

crip

CRIP(1) 						      Debian GNU/Linux manual							   CRIP(1)

NAME

       crip - a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool

SYNOPSIS

       crip [options]

DESCRIPTION

       crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC files under UNIX/Linux.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help Print help and exit.

       -v, --version Print version of crip and exit.

       -e codec Encode to vorbis or flac (default = vorbis).

       -s media Specify the source media (default = CD).

       -g genre Specify the music genre (default = classical).

       -q [on/off] Classical-stype questioning (default = off).

       -m [on/off] Map european to american-only chars (default = off).

       -t [on/off] Trim leading/tailing silence (default = off).

       -n [on/off] Normalize the audio (default = off).

       -V voltresh Volume threshold for normalizing (default = 1.078) (only used when normalizing is enabled).

       -r [on/off] Remove files after encoding (default = on).

       -E editor Editor to use (default = sensible-editor).

       -u [on/off/both] Use editor to name the files (default = on) (as opposed to the command-line).

       -o flags Flags to pass to oggenc (default = '-q 4').

       -f flags Flags to pass to flac (default = '--best --replay-gain').

       -c flags Flags to pass to cdparanoia (default = '-v -z').

       -d device CDrom device to read from (default = /dev/cdrom).

       -w [on/off] Skip the ripping (makes empty .wav files) (default = off) (useful if you already have the .wav files to encode).

       -p [on/off] Prompt to continue after ripping (default = off) (useful pause to edit .wav files before encoding).

       -x [on/off] Eject CD when done ripping (default = off)

SEE ALSO

       oggenc(1) flac(1) cdparanoia(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Florian Ragwitz <florian.ragwitz@s2004.tu-chemnitz.de>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

Debian Project							    2009-04-06								   CRIP(1)
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