You don’t need to go to Finder, lookout for each & then copy paste.

   

You can either copy all of them at once using below find command with regex incorporating with rsync or cp -

 

• Using rsync -

  find -E . -regex '.*\.(jpg|png|mp4|mp3|csv|txt)' -exec rsync -avzh {} ~/found/ \;

• Using cp -

  mkdir ~/found

  find -E . -regex '.*\.(jpg|png|mp4|mp3|csv|txt)' -exec cp {} ~/found/ \;

   

You can also copy them to individual directories -

 

Copy all MP4 files to videos directory -

 

• Using rsync -

  find -E . -regex '.*\.(mp4)' -exec rsync -avzh {} ~/found/videos/ \;

• Using cp -

  mkdir ~/found

  find -E . -regex '.*\.(mp4)' -exec cp {} ~/found/videos/ \;

   

Copy all image files to images directory -

 

• Using rsync -

  find -E . -regex '.*\.(jpg|png|jpeg)' -exec rsync -avzh {} ~/found/images/ \;

• Using cp -

  mkdir ~/found

  find -E . -regex '.*\.(jpg|png|jpeg)' -exec cp {} ~/found/images/ \;

   

Note: We can create simple shell script and put it as a cronjob, using rsync you can perform inremental backup of your data to another drive or folder.

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