Searching a drive and copying files

[Joshua Lewis]

Hello List,

I have a two part question for anyone who may be able to help.

I need to search my drive for all pictures on my system and copy them  
to a networked system using sftp or ssh or what not. There will be  
duplicate names on the drive so I was hoping to have dups placed in a  
separate folder. Due to my for lack of a better term stupidity when I  
first got my camera I will probably have instances when there will be  
three or four duplicates. If anyone can help me out with that it  
would be great.

Second is there a resource online I can use to learn how to do my own  
shell scripting?

My goal is to find all my pictures and compare them then delete the  
dups that don't look that good. A daunting task as I have 20 GB of  
data. I bet 10 GB are dups.

Thanks for any help.

Sincerely,
Joshua Lewis
joshua.lewis at familyfunzone.net