Move huge amount of files with directory creating

harp1814

1/25/24, 1:44 PM

There is src directory with sub-dirs as

/tmp/part1
/tmp/part2
/tmp/part3

Sub dirs contains huge amount of wav-files

I need to move wav-files to /dst directory so that subdir1,subdir2,etc would be created in /dst and file moved to neccessary sub-dir in dst directory.

Because of huge amount i do:

$source="/tmp"
$dst= "/dst"

find $source -name "*.wav" -exec mv  {} $dst \;

But all files are moved to /dst , not by subdir. Is it possible to create subdirs "on-the-fly" ?

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matigo

1/25/24, 2:31 PM

I do not understand why you’re not using `cp -R` for this …

harp1814

1/25/24, 2:33 PM

Because i need to delete files in src path. But it neccessary to be sure, that files are copied succesfully

sudodus

1/25/24, 3:06 PM

I would use `rsync`, which is very reliable and can also exclude files (sets of files) with the option `--exclude`. You can use the 'archive' option `-a`. But it copies, does not move, so you should delete files from the original location (*but first* make sure that the copying was successful).

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