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Linux (bash / shell): Move or copy files to a folder based on a recursive search
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Move all image files at any subfolder (recursively) to a single folder.

In the example below, I need to move all images from all subfolders to a single folder

find /absolute/path/to/images  -name '*.png' | xargs -I files mv files /absolute/image/newpath

find /absolute/path/to/videos  -name '*.mp4' | xargs -I files mv files /absolute/video/newpath

find /absolute/path/to/images  -name '*.jpg' | xargs -I files mv files /absolute/photo/newpath
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