[SOLVED] Is there a way to move n files from n folders each folder contain 1 file with the same extension i.e (.pdf)

Issue

i have 126 folders in the same directory with names like this "5d843c63-2043-499b-abd6-6ea0bbde5f58"

each folder contain 1 #pdf file i want to move each file to one

i have used the command and managed to locate all the pdfs in the separated folders locate ~/Desktop/wps\ /*pdf

then i used the " | " to move them at once but i couldn't i use the commnad locate ~/Desktop/wps\ /*pdf | mv ~/Desktop/pdffff/ STOUD be like mv: missing destination file operand after '/home/yousef/Desktop/pdffff/' using ubuntu

Solution

I don't know the locate command, but if it returns a list of paths of the files you want, do

mv `locate ~/Desktop/wps\ /*pdf` /path_to/new_folder_to_store_pdfs

The backticks ` ` will execute the locate command first, then the output of locate will be substituted into the outer mv command.

I did it just now with find and it worked.

mv `find -name *pdf` new_folder

Answered By - wxz