mv xrags and cp

[Florian Diesch]

John Dangler <jdangler at atlantic.net> wrote:

>> 
>> This command is good
>>  find olddir -name '*.jpg' -exec cp {} newdir/ \;
>> 
>> how can I make the above command rename the file in the format of
>> 
>> date +%s%N.jpg
>> 
>> to make sure that each file gets a unique name?
>> 
> write a shell script around the command like...
> for word in `find olddir -name '*.jpg'
> do
> ... copy command
> done

This will fail if there are filenames containing whitespaces.



   Florian
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