Copy nested folders contents to one folder recursively (terminal)

Question

I have a Wordpress upload folder that is structured using subfolders for months.

wolfr2:uploads wolfr$ tree .
.
|-- 2007
|   |-- 08
|   |   |-- beautifulkatamari         


        

Answer 1

Off the top of my head:

find . -type f -name \*.jpg -exec cp \{\} $TARGETFOLDER \;

If that doesn't work, comment and I'll try again, but find is definitely the way to go.

Answer 2

None of the above commands worked for me as such on macOS 10.15. Here's the one that worked:

find . -name "*.jpg" -exec cp /{/} [target folder path] \;

Answer 3

This will copy all *.jpg files from the current folder to a new folder and preserve the directory structure.

tar cvfp `find . -name "*.jpg"` | (cd <newfolder>; tar xfp -)

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To copy without preserving the directory structure:

cp `find . -name "*.jpg"` <newfolder>