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Oh MS does do that I found out. When I viewed the file form the finder it displayed the full http path of where the teacher grabbed that file.

It will look something like this... find /path/to/source/folder -iname \*.wma -exec mv {} /path/to/target/folder \; ...but i don't claim that's 100% right. I would put an "echo" in there, and study the results on screen first: find /path/to/source/folder -iname \*.wma -exec echo mv {} /path/to/target/folder \; [you will need to provide the paths]

I think he means defaults, like 'untitled.txt'. So something like find /Users -iname 'untitled*' -delete would seek and destroy any file beginning with 'untitled'. Rather dangerous command, test carefully.

Quote: Originally Posted by hayne You just did so. Threads don't go away - they are useful for future googlers. I wouldn't have expected them to go away. Some forum moderators find it useful to mark a thread's title so that people looking to help don't waste time clicking through and reading a thread, only to find the question's been answered. They also can get kinda snippy if you don't so mark a solved question....

Here is a function I regularly use to change the directory to wherever the script resides. Code: WorkDir () { # Change to Script Directory WorkDir=`dirname "$0"` cd "$WorkDir" }

Agree dangerous, particularly when fooling around with other folk's stuff. I was thinking though of new files created in other apps which may not be named "untitled".

We have an ubuntu web server at work, and i'd like to setup our builds to work locally on my 10.6 machine so i dont have to sync 2 boxes. I've installed macports, but before i start blowing stuff up, i was wondering if there's a way to sandbox the changes so if i need to remove them it will be easy?

That was not successful but it direct me to '-strip' which solved the problem: mogrify -strip -quality 25% -type optimize -format jpg ...image.psd

It would help if you could post an example of the move you're hoping for. Something like moving every matching file to the same destination is easy. Moving every file to destination dependent on the existing location is doable, but a bit harder. An example like the following would be helpful: /original/path/to/directory1/file1 /original/path/to/directory1/file2 /original/path/to/directory2/file3 /destination/path/to/all/files or:...

if your find command supports +;, then use this Code: find /path/to/source/folder -iname \*.wma -exec mv {} /path/to/target/folder +; otherwise, you can use xargs Code: find /path/to/source/folder -iname \*.wma -print0 | xargs -0 -i mv "{}" /destination