You issued a find command to find your .mp3 files but it didn’t find all of them—it missed all those that were part of your filesystem but were mounted via a symbolic link.
Is find unable to cross that kind of boundary?
Use the -follow predicate. The example we used before becomes:
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$ find . -follow -name '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -i -0 mv '{}' ~/songs |
Sometimes you don’t want find to cross over onto other filesystems, which is where symbolic links originated.
So the default for find is not to follow a symbolic link.
If you do want it to do so, then use the -follow option as the first option in the list on your find command.
