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mass copy files of specific extensions to folder

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I recently recovered a drive that was corrupted. it has a ton of extra files I do not need but I do need to copy files by extension over to the new location, eg: .jpg .png .mov .mp4 .wav .pdf .doc ext, ther are held in multiple sub directories along with a lot of crap files. like .java and .txts

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answered 2 Years ago inciplyies · Accepted Answer

Using rsync -avm --include='*.ext' -f 'hide,! */' "dir" "dir", I completed the task and made a .sh script duplicating the method for the other extensions.