How to move all the files from several subdirectories to a single dir?

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Sat, 02/21/2009 - 16:42 — egyember

How to move (or copy) all the selected files from several subdirectories to one single directory?

find [from_dir_name] -iname "[your file names like *.txt]" -exec mv {} [target dir name] \;

Just change mv to cp to copy.
Good luck.

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