Script to move pictures

Question

How can I write a script that will move all .png .svg .gif files from /home/eric/Desktop to /usr/share/icons?

Answer 1

bash can handle this easily:

mv /home/eric/Desktop/*.{png,svg,gif} /usr/share/icons

Use sudo mv ... if you don't have permission to write into /usr/share/icons.

Answer 2

As follows

#!/bin/sh

gksu mv /home/eric/Desktop/*.png /usr/share/icons & mv /home/eric/Desktop/*.svg /usr/share/icons & mv /home/eric/Desktop/*.gif /usr/share/icons & exit

I'm not a bash expert - but this should work. if it doesn't there is no warranty with my answer :P

Answer 3

Why not use find? This worked for me:

find ./  -maxdepth 1 \( -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.gif" -o -iname "*.svg" \) -ok cp {} /tmp/ \;

You want to mv not cp, and your destination is /usr/share/icons not /tmp but you can run this from the command line or a shell script.

-iname is case insensitive, -name would be case sensitive. Tweak the -maxdepth to your liking, and/or pull of the -ok clause to just see what it is coming up with.