Re: [Motion-user] Trying to write cron job to movr files daily

[Josh T. <he...@pu...>]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:42:18AM -0400, Jeff Groves wrote:
>    The find your prescribe is going to find every .jpg and .avi file not only
>    in the current subdirectory, but also in all directories off of the one
>    specified in the command and move them to the new directory.  Probably not
>    what you want to have happen if you've already moved yesterday's files
>    into their own subdirectory.
> 
>    All of this begs the question:  Whats wrong with the simpleton's approach
>    (my favorite) of doing:
> 
>       mv *.avi $TEMP/
>       mv *.jpg $TEMP/
> 
>    What am I missing here that people are trying to kill themselves using
>    xargs?
> 
>    Thanks,
> 
>    Jeff G.

Hi Jeff,

I see what you're saying, but mv falls apart when dealing with anything but
the simplest cases. That's why I prefer find/xargs for a lot of stuff.

The current problem is a "simple case," but I generally try to set things up
in anticipation of needing to do more complex things later.

Thanks,

Josh
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