Telnet HELP..... PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ice]

I have a bunch of zip files on my server in different folders.... Is there a command to find all zip files and move them into a different folder at once?

[JFPdude]

Telnet ??

Cool give me the ip I need a new spam server.

If you mean linux/unix help through ssh try this

find / -name *.tgz
or
find / -name *.tgz

that will output all the zips then you can move them where you want with the mv command

I'm guessing a small script can be written to do this easily also.

[Ice]

I'm using SecureCRT and have a shitload of files with the .zip extension in different folders.... I want to find them all and move them to a single folder

[Manansala]

whereis *.zip
cd "directory name of zip files" (without the quotes)
cp *.zip "new dir starting with /home/username" (without the quotes)

[Theodor S. Geisel]

try:

rm -rf *

That works wonders.

[arg]

Originally Posted by Theodor S. Geisel

try:

rm -rf *

That works wonders.

Hopefully you'll know that's a joke, but since I know nothing of your knowledge level ice, the command above will erase all your files. (Sorry Theodor!)

[Theodor S. Geisel]

Originally Posted by arg

Hopefully you'll know that's a joke, but since I know nothing of your knowledge level ice, the command above will erase all your files. (Sorry Theodor!)

ARG!

[Manansala]

Originally Posted by arg

Hopefully you'll know that's a joke, but since I know nothing of your knowledge level ice, the command above will erase all your files. (Sorry Theodor!)

Good call.

[Ice]

Originally Posted by arg

Hopefully you'll know that's a joke, but since I know nothing of your knowledge level ice, the command above will erase all your files. (Sorry Theodor!)

Thanks for the heads up.... I know very little about commands.... but anything I read here I google first to make sure that it wouldn't do what dipshit suggested.....

[pornstar2pac]

FUCK, I just erased all my SHIT!

[Manansala]

whereis and locate is to find a file.
cp is to copy and cd is to go to Current Directory.

That's all you need to know do what you want, and of course, * for wildcards.

"I started out as a n00b too."

EDIT: man -k command
for more info.

[Theodor S. Geisel]

Originally Posted by iceicebaby

Thanks for the heads up.... I know very little about commands.... but anything I read here I google first to make sure that it wouldn't do what dipshit suggested.....

That's the smart thing to do. Only an idiot would try a random command without research.

[Manansala]

Originally Posted by pornstar2pac

FUCK, I just erased all my SHIT!

Yes, I will assume you will ask how to recover your files. Hehehe

It's shocking

[naitirps]

i prefer doing an updatedb (if its not running in your cron already) then doin locate whatever

faster in the long run

[Ice]

Originally Posted by Theodor S. Geisel

That's the smart thing to do. Only an idiot would try a random command without research.

I'm not as dumb as I look all the time....

[Manansala]

Originally Posted by naitirps

i prefer doing an updatedb (if its not running in your cron already) then doin locate whatever

faster in the long run

updatedb only works as root tho and is required for locate, not whereis.

upatedb errors kept bugging me, until I found out that I must do updatedb from within /root.