Move files to directories based on extension

Question

I am new to Linux. I am trying to write a shell script which will move files to certain folders based on their extension, like for example in my downloads f

Answer 1

Two ways:

1. find . -name '*mp3' -or -name '*ogg' -print | xargs -J% mv % ../../Music
2. find . -name '*mp3' -or -name '*ogg' -exec mv {} ../Music \;

The first uses a pipe and may run out of argument space; while the second may use too many forks and be slower. But, both will work.