On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:12:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Du, 12 feb 12, 20:01:05, Joel Roth wrote:
> > >
> > > for dir in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do chdir $dir/bak; mv *.yml
> > > ../..; done
> >
> > Thanks, I got something like that to work.
>
> I would have tried something with find's '-execdir'
>
> - no need to operate on find's output (not a good idea unless you are
> 100% sure there are no "strange" filenames)
> - no need for the added complexity of the loop, chdir, etc.
>
> Something like this should work (untested):
>
> find -type f -name '*.yml' -execdir mv {} .. \;
Works fine. Now I see how the -execdir command works.
(Tried before, but must have had some syntax error.)
Thanks for your help!
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
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