Copying only JPG from a directory structure to another location Linux

Question

I have a directory structure of which I wish to recursively go through the folders and copy any .jpg I find into another directory.

I think I had the wrong idea with:

cp -R photos/*.jpg /cpjpg

I am usin Ubuntu.

Thanks.

Answer 1

This will copy all files ending in .jpg or .jpeg (case insensitive as well) in the current directory and all its subdirectories to the directory /cpjpg.

find . -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -iname "*.jpeg" \) -exec cp '{}' /cpjpg \;

Answer 2

This will do the same thing as above, but will preserve the directory structure.

find photos/ -type f \( -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' \) -print0 |xargs -0 tar c |(cd /cpjpg ; tar x)

Answer 3

% rsync -av --include='*.jpg' --exclude='*' SRC DST