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extract pdfs from nested folders
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Say i want to extract my ebooks(PDF) from nested folders to a flattened format

  1. mkdir ~/mybooks
  2. cd ~/nested-books-folder
  3. run the command below
find . -iname '*.pdf' -exec cp {} '../mybooks/.' \;
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