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		johntash on Nov 3, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Move all photos from Google takeout into one direc... Out of everything in this thread, this was the most interesting to me. I didn't know you could pipe a list of files to mv. It makes sense, I guess I just never tried it because anything I would have used it for, I would have used find or xargs instead.

justsomehnguy on Nov 3, 2022 [–]

This is PowerShell and it doesn't work on *nix machines because ls and mv are native binaries.

Would work on Windows, would work on *nix if change it to

    gci -Recurse -Filter *.jpg | move dest_dir

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