Shell Programming and Scripting

while read ligne
    do
         result=`ls -R ../FILES/|grep "."$ligne"$"`
         echo $result
    done<TYPE_EXT_FILES.txt

shopt -s globstar
while read -r ext
do printf '%s\n' ../FILES/**/*.$ext
done < TYPE_EXT_FILES.txt

result=`find ../FILES/ -name "*.$ext"` #don't parse the ext variable.

while read EXT
do
        find ../FILES/ -name "*.${EXT}" | while read FILE
        do
                mv -i "${FILE}" "/path/to/destination/folder"
        done
done < extlist.txt

while read EXT
do
        find ../FILES/ -name "*.${EXT}" -exec mv -i '{}' "/path/to/destination/folder" ';'
done < extlist.txt

while read EXT
do
        find ../FILES/ -name "*.${EXT}" -exec mv -t "/path/to/destination/folder" -i '{}' '+'
done < extlist.txt

#!/bin/bash

# creates a file called ext.txt containing a few file extensions
cat <<EOF >ext.txt
txt
so
bar
EOF


# makes a bunch of folders
mkdir -p a/b c/d e/f

# makes a bunch of files
touch a/1.so c/2.so e/3.so
touch a/b/this.bar c/d/that.so e/f/something.so
touch a/what.bar c/the.bar e/f.bar

# Reads and finds all file extensions
while read EXT
do
        echo "Finding all files with $EXT extension:"

        find ./ -name "*.${EXT}"
        echo
done <ext.txt

 $ ./findext.sh
Finding all files with txt extension:
./ext.txt

Finding all files with so extension:
./a/1.so
./c/d/that.so
./c/2.so
./e/f/something.so
./e/3.so

Finding all files with bar extension:
./a/b/this.bar
./a/what.bar
./c/f.bar
./c/the.bar
./e/f.bar

$

while read EXT
    do
    echo " Extension: $EXT"    
    find ../SOURCES/ -name '*.${EXT}' | while read FILENAME
        do 
        echo test
        done
    
    done<TEST.txt