On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:15:37PM -0500, Darin Strait wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a large directory tree, with scores of end nodes. Each end node in the
> tree has a number of files whose names end either in .mp3 or in .flac.
>
> I would like to copy the directory structure of the tree, but I want to move
> files that end in .mp3 to the new tree and leave the .flac files behind.
>
> What is the easiest way to do that? I was looking at unision, but unison seems
You can use tar and find/rm (make sure you verify before rm files):
e.g.
mkdir copyfoo
(cd foo/; tar cf - . ) | (cd copyfoo/; tar xvf - *mp3)
find foo/ -name *.mp3 -exec rm \{\} \;
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