Question

this script moves all the doc files to a specified directory….i have managed to put an argument but the problem im facing is puting the full path where the scripts are moving to for example i want to run the script like this below

./loo -d then path where im moving the files (i.e ./loo -d the second argument where files are moving to)

this is my code

#!/bin/bash
From="/home/elg19/lone/doc"
To="/home/elg19/documents"

if [ $1 = -d ]; then
cd "$From"
for i in pdf txt doc; do
find . -type f -name "*.${i}" -exec mv "{}" "$To" \;
done
fi

Answer 1

how about this?

#!/bin/bash

from=/home/elg19/lone/doc
if [[ $1 = -d ]]; then
    to=$2
else
    to=/home/elg19/documents
fi

find "$from" -type f \( -name '*.pdf' -o -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.doc' \) -exec bash -c 'dest=$1; shift; mv "$@" "$dest"' _ "$to" {} +