Comments on: Copying files from multiple folders into one folder, Mac OS X

By: Eric Brand

Eric Brand — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:28:00 +0000

Wicked cool. Thanks for the tip (from 2 1/2 years ago :))!

By: Gerardo Iula

Gerardo Iula — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:16:00 +0000

Great post, I really need it for my 9000 files to rename and move out!

By: okiba75

okiba75 — Sun, 09 May 2010 06:12:55 +0000

A quick hint: if you have spaces in your file names the syntax of the command will be:

find [sourcedir] -type f -iname "*.ext" -exec cp {} [destdir] ;

By: Chester

Chester — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:12:33 +0000

Glad that you’re tagging your computer entries…gonna be sifting through a lot of them, for sure, as my girlfriend got a MacBook Pro and I have to prep it / trick it out for her. Yes, it’s funny that I’m going to have to learn my way around a Mac. And, yes, I’m kind of afraid I’m going to grow to like it.

By: Topher

Topher — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:07:40 +0000

Yay UNIX!!

If it's important to you, you can also preserve the modified and created date of the files by using cp -p instead of cp. =)