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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Move the files that have been found Post 302984734 by AAAnni on Sunday 30th of October 2016 10:10:26 PM
Old 10-30-2016
Hi thank you, I think that is part of what I tried before so I had

Code:
find . -type f -exec mv {} NewDirectory;

but it doesn't seem to be working, so the NewDirectory is in my current working directory as I typed the command, I'm not sure what went wrong.
 

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