Depending on the situation, I might do it slightly differently:
find -regex <pattern> -print0 |xargs -0 mv {} /path/to/other/dir
A good reason to use find over ls|grep is that your criteria can be much
broader including file types, permissions, simple names, create and
modified dates, size, and more.
Here's another alternative:
find -regex <pattern> -exec mv {} /path/to/other/dir \;
find's -print0 means print with the null character \0x0 between filenames.
xargs' -0 means look for names separated by the \0x0 character.
{} means place the current filename being processed here and works with
both find -exec and xargs.
Other simple find arguments are -name and -iname for case
sensitivity/insensitivity. Find is recursive by default. -maxdepth 1
to specify the current directory only.
What' Q+D?
Cory
On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 11:57:21AM -0800, Larry Price wrote:
>
> just some random observations that might be of use,
> in my job I occassionally have to deal with directories containing a very
> large number of files and have a need to sieve them or operate in a
> non-uniform manner on them.
>
> so if you haven't yet encountered the 'argument list too big' error
> message here's a few useful bits that might stave off the shakes
>
> note: most of this can be accomplished with find, but these are the q+d
> lines that will let you get the job done while you are reading the man
> page for find
>
> to get all files whose name matches a pattern and move them to another dir
>
> ls|grep <pattern>|xargs -l1 mv --target-directory=/path/to/other/dir/
>
> the important bits: xargs -l1 says to construct new commands from each
> line of stdin it receives and the long option for mv is so that xargs can
> use it as though the invocation of mv were something like
> mv --target-directory=/some/random/path $1
>
> So that's your Q+D shell trick for the day, remember there is a clinic
> tonight. See you there
>
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