sankit's questions

I have millions of images on my ubuntu cloud server. When I move a complete folder containing 12 million images using mv command, it happens almost instantaneously. However, when I mv only images(not the folder) then it takes some time. Is there a way to move all the images as quickly as folders ?

This is what is happening:

1. src folder has 12 million images and I move this to dst folder using

   $ mv  src ../dst
   

   Happens immediately

2. Inside src folder I do this to move:

   find -maxdepth 1 -name '*.jpg' -exec mv -t ../../dst/ {} +
   

   This takes some time.

Is there a way to speed up the second process ?