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plener

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jan 15, 2009
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using leopard
i have a usb drive with tons of mp3 files on it --i want to move these files to another folder
finder takes to long to select and then move them--i know how to do it--what i want to do is use terminal and unix to move the file
i know very little of unix

disk finder finds the usb drive

using unic commands how can i
1. get to the drive?--mount point is /volumes/no name
no name is drive name

then using a unix
command move only the mp3 files to another drive and folder

my main drive is called untitled 1--it has leopard on it
 
You're not going to save any time using the Terminal , but...

If you use "tab" to autocomplete you should be able to do this quite easily.

Code:
cd /Volumes/no\ name
cp *.mp3 /path/to/desired/location

(I recommend cp instead of mv so if you screw up you'll still have the originals.)
 
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