On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 18:10, Jan Callewaert wrote: > * Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-14 17:48:15 +0800]: > > > Hi All, > > > > I have no idea how else to put the subject. It's weird behaviour. > > > > I'm trying to move a bunch of PDFs which has the words "gentoo" in it > > into a folder marked as "Gentoo/" and somehow I'm not succedding. > > (I'm too stubborn to want to do it the cut and paste way in nautilus" > >
> The problem is that you have to deal with the spaces in the names: > > find . -iname "gentoo.*pdf" | while read i > do > mv "$i" Gentoo/ > done > That should do the trick.... Actually that didn't help. No output after excuting the line. This did the trick though. find . -iname "*gentoo*" -maxdepth 1 | while read i > do > cp "$i" /tmp/pop pop popo > cp "$i" /tmp/popo/ > done cp: omitting directory `./Gentoo' Thanks.. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:02:42 up 11 min, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.57, -- [email protected] mailing list
