Question

I am trying to write a simple command that searches through a music directory for all files of a certain type and copies them to a new directory. I would be fine if the files didn’t have spaces.

I’m using a script from the following question, but it fails for spaces:
bash script problem, find , mv tilde files created by gedit

Any suggestions on how I can handle spaces, once I’m satisfied that all the files are being listed, I’ll change echo to cp

for D in `find . -name "*.wma*"`; do echo "${D}"; done

Answer 1

You probably want to do this instead:

find . -name *.wma -exec echo "{}" \;