That was the reason I went in this direction, but had I needed to move more data that was scattered all over the place then your method should solve that problem nicely.

Keep in mind I’m very green with linux in general, but I like it much more then the other alternatives out there.

I’m always learning something new from it – not just feeling inept

How long have you been using linux/unix os?

And what are your thoughts on it?

find find dir1/ -type f -exec mv {} dir2/ \;

For example, if I have x and y as two directories and x has a file named “this is a new file” – the following works.

>find y -type f -exec cat {} \;
This is test.

>find y -type f
y/this is a new file

>find y -type f -exec mv {} x \;

>find y -type f

>find x -type f
x/this is a new file

>find x -type f -exec cat {} \;
This is test.

For pointing out a practical use for xargs command! I used it to do something like this:

ls -c |grep [Bb]odyb |xargs -I {} mv {} /xas/weightlifting

and it worked in nicely.

thanks again,
Ralphie