mass copy files of specific extensions to folder

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I recently recovered a drive that was corrupted. it has a ton of extra files I do not need but I do need to copy files by extension over to the new location, eg: .jpg .png .mov .mp4 .wav .pdf .doc ext, ther are held in multiple sub directories along with a lot of crap files. like .java and .txts

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '13 at 21:27

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Open a terminal

cd /media/drew/recovered-drive/home/drew
cp -r *.jpg /home/drew/Pictures
cp -r *.mov /home/drew/Videos
etc...

Does this help?

answered Oct 08 '13 at 21:27

penner

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does not work get error "cp: cannot stat '*.jpg' No suhc file or directory" – Drew Oct 08 '13 at 22:14
sudo does not change the outcome... it seems that it should work though, odd – Drew Oct 09 '13 at 19:29
Oh... those file paths might not actually exist. I was just giving examples of what you could do. While you are typing that in, try tab competition. Or see this article for help: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal – penner Oct 09 '13 at 20:34

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 20 '15 at 17:18

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Lazy man's way is to delete the junk files first.

find . -name "*.java" -type f|xargs rm -f
find . -name "*.txt" -type f|xargs rm -f

edited Dec 20 '15 at 17:18

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answered Oct 08 '13 at 21:29

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 20 '15 at 17:40

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Using rsync -avm --include='*.ext' -f 'hide,! */' "dir" "dir", I completed the task and made a .sh script duplicating the method for the other extensions.

edited Dec 20 '15 at 17:40

Martin Thornton

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answered Oct 30 '13 at 23:02

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