Hi Justin, If you want to use mv commands from the terminal to move multiple files at once, you should look into the syntax of regular expressions.
For example, mv file0[1-9].txt new_folder will move file01.txt, file02.txt, file03.txt, etc into new_folder mv [a,n]*mp3 new_folder2 will move any file whose name begins with "a" or "n" (lower case) and ends in mp3 to new_folder2 mv file?.txt new_folder3 will move any folder with a name beginning with "file" followed by a single character of any type (alphabetic, number, symbol) and then a .txt extention to new_folder3 You should probably practice with commands like "ls" which will only list results, and not move them. Maybe someone can suggest a good web page from a linux or unix source that demostrates metacharacters and search ranges for regular expressions matching file names? Cheers, Esther On Mar 07, 2008, at 12:19PM, Justin Harford wrote: >Hi all > >Saw this thread and I had a question of my own. > >I generally use the mv command in terminal to move stuff around but I >have wanted to be able to move multiple files at once. Does anyone >know if there is a syntax that you can use to indicate multiple files >for an action like mv or cp? Perhaps a , between the paths, or >something? > >Regards >Justin Harford
