CrunchBang Linux

I figured I could start with the knowledge base here, but let me know if I should post this on a general linux forum.

In a nutshell, I have an external HD with multiple months of windows backups.  I need to find .jpg files from the various folders within the backups and copy them on to my netbook.  I have gone into the folders on the HD and verified that the pics are there.  instead of manually coping and pasting or using something like Photorec, I wanted to do this via command line.

I have googled and come up with multiple commands that may work, but I would like to keep the folder names that the pictures are in on the ext. HD and have no idea how to accomplish that.

my overall knowledge is very weak and any assistance is appreciated.

the commands that I found that look promising are:

find /path/to/directory/ -iname "*.jpg" -execdir cp '{}' /path/to/directory/ \;

find /path/to/directory/ -type f \ ( -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*jpeg' \) -print0 |xargs -0 tar c | (cd /newpicfolder ; tar x)

I'm really not sure if either of these will do what I want.  I'm also not sure why the fist command has double quotes around *.jpg and the second one has single quotes.  I really don't yet know what any of the other things like -iname and xargs mean either.

One issue is that some of the picture file names will be the same, but they were in different folders on the windows machine and I really want to keep the original folder structure and not overwrite pics with the same name.  Can this be accomplished?  Is there a better way to go about this?

Again, if things like this should be directed to a more general linux forum please let me know.

Thanks
CF

Hey all, I'm a linux noob (2 months) and loving it so far.  I have tried many a distro and have landed here.  I really like the simplicity of CB and find it works really good on my new netbook.  With my dire need to learn about linux, I just felt that the user friendly distros like ubuntu or mint, were simply, too user friendly.  I wanted a distro that would help me learn the basics and get me down and dirty with the command line.  Granted everything pretty much worked out of the box, I still need to get my network sharing taken care of.  I have found a few threads relating to just that and will try some things out when I get home.

I have much to learn, but wanted to pop in and say hi. I hope to learn much from you gurus.

I went ahead and created some CB wallpapers, nothing special, I just used some of my vector arsenal, some thought and came up with a few in case anyone would like to use them.  I tried to keep them simple with the black / white theme intact.

Centerfinger - reformed windows user, knife maker, outdoorsman